<p>May rather be a comment, but there evolves a discussion here (which shouldn't happen anyways...) so my "answers" try to sort the different lines in the discussion:</p>

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  <p>But I see plenty of people enter the site who are very naive in statistics but have a project at work that they need help with.</p>
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<p>But what is their alternative? Usually not to ask the fully-grown statistician next door - I guess most people would do that rather than typing in the questions if they had the possibility. </p>

<p>So the pro of this is that statistics knowledge is spead among people who do not have a statistician at hand. Also, sometimes people are told to go and find a statistician to consult.</p>

<p>About the naive questions: if you're coming from another field you may use a very different language than what is common in statistics. This may add a lot to the naive sound of a question.</p>
