<p>Our first polystats project research question is:</p>

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  <p>Are there reputation effects in SE communities and to what extent are reputation effects contingent on various variables such as size of the community, number of views per day, no of questions per day etc?</p>
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<p>See: <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/2867/28">Which one of the following questions should we address for our first Polystats Project?</a> for votes on various proposed questions.</p>

<p>I am posting below some issues pertaining to data collection. As soon as reach consensus on these issues we can proceed to the exploratory data analysis phase of the project. Feel free to post any proposals that may occur to you and on which you think we need consensus. </p>

<p>Similar to the previous question, this poll will be open for 3 days till Sep 25th 00 hrs UTC.</p>

<p>Please vote up or down vote as appropriate as this is a CW question.</p>

<p>Previous Questions reg Polystats-Project-1:</p>

<p>Question 1: <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/2512/28">What should be our first Polystats Project?</a><br>
Question 2: <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/2662/28">What should be the data collection strategy for our first Polystats Project?</a><br>
Question 3: <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/2867/28">Which one of the following questions should we address for our first Polystats Project?</a></p>

<p>Relevant Meta Thread:</p>

<p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/419/28Blockquote">How about starting a Polystats Project?</a></p>
