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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by collyw on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:59AM (#17254349)
Stack overflow generally has more than one answer per question, so probably not. People more likely up vote an existing question.
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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by oblio on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:33AM (#17255179)
No way. Even on Stack Overflow the ratio of answers to questions is below 1.

Yup, found it:

select 1000 * (select count() from Posts where PostTypeId = 1 and AnswerCount = 0) / (select count() from Posts where PostTypeId = 1);

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new

=> 132 for me.

so 132 answers for 1000 questions, on average.

You're looking at popular questions, that have a ton of answers. But the long tail is huge and most of those questions have 0/1 answers, most likely 0.

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