<p>No universal criteria are applicable.  Community moderation in the form of upvotes, downvotes, and actual answers will appropriately control and govern the scope of CV.</p>

<p>Relevant discussions and standards (in chronological order): <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/">Example 1</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35">Example 2</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252">Example 3</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/276">Example 4</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/474/printhello-world-n/475#475">Example 5</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/559/policy-on-r-questions-stackoverflow-vs-stats-analysis/598#598">Example 6</a>, and <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/584">Example 7</a></p>

<p>Example statements arguing in favor of this loose standard:</p>

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<li>"We agreed to welcome such questions, mainly because it is just hard to judge what is good and what is bad in this direction and we don't want to assume everybody here have also SO account" @mbq</li>
<li>"Answer the question unless it clearly has no statistical content."  and "... answer these questions and if no answer is forthcoming, then point them to SO. Not voting the question up for these types of questions will help too. I think it's easier to allow a wider range of questions rather than endless debating whether questions are on or off topic. Also if we close questions too quickly, it can put off people returning to the site - first impressions last and all that". @csgillespie</li>
<li>"I would like to suggest not migrating existing questions on any basis. Let this site grow as it will" @whuber</li>
<li>"To me, any SAS, R, S+, SPSS, Stata, etc. question is perfectly valid here" @Baltimark</li>
<li>"The downside is that R questions will tend to be split between the stats.SE and SO sites. But that is happening already and our distinction of statistical questions here and programming questions on SO is rather fuzzy and almost impossible to moderate. Also, as somebody pointed out on another thread on meta, forcing people onto SO is not very friendly to newbies." @Rob Hyndman</li>
</ul>
