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  <p>Here's the entire train of thought I had from the moment I dreamt up the project till I just finished writing this question, including every irrelevant detail and conversation with my supervisor (who once taught a stats course and is thinking about writing a book, except they had a skiing accident and got sidetracked, but on the upside they now have some time to read my manuscript but think I did my analysis wrong), plus the flashes of questionable insight I got while pondering this in the shower this morning, though I forgot some of it because my allergies started kicking in, isn't it crazy how that happens just when you've got some important idea, but anyway what I wanted to ask is...</p>
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<p>I get that it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between relevant and irrelevant detail when framing a question. But when I have to read through 4 meandering paragraphs before getting the tiniest inkling of what help is needed, I'm not inclined to react favourably. These questions are unclear because they distract with excess detail. And they are worse than some of the other types of bad questions because they waste more of the reader's time.</p>

<p>Bonus points for combining this with <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4550/121522">Can anybody help me?</a> and <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5315/121522">What do I do with this data?</a>.</p>
