<p>I disagree with Frank on whether the level of question is declining. I haven't noticed such a change.  Indeed, compared to some other sites, I find a lot of the questions are quite high level.</p>

<p>However, I agree with him about "everyone feels they should understand statistics" and "if I wanted to start an engineering project ..." but I'd go further: If I wanted to start an engineering project, I'd hire an engineer and not pretend to be one.</p>

<p>If that was the case, then most of the questions here would be either very high level questions from other statisticians or low level questions from people who are just curious about something.</p>
