<p>We've had statistical questions concerning applications from Astrology to Zoology&mdash;these kind of "practical, answerable questions based on actual problems" are our site's bread &amp; butter (to my mind "questions with an unambiguously theoretical statistical stance" are a garnish). It's not usually difficult to apply @gung's criterion&mdash;"What does the OP need explained?"&mdash;to decide if a question's really <em>about</em> the economics or whatever rather than about the statistics, &amp; we migrate relatively few questions on these grounds. Some examples follow:</p>

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<li><p><a href="https://economics.stackexchange.com/q/14917">https://economics.stackexchange.com/q/14917</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/314969">https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/314969</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/31899">https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/31899</a></p></li>
</ul>

<p>I think most users will agree that the facts and concepts needed to answer these belong to Economics, Physics, &amp; Finance.</p>

<p>History, philosophy, &amp; cultural anthropology of statistics are on-topic, as is the role of statistical analysis in the scientific method. That is, questions in these areas have been treated as on-topic, though there's not been much explicit discussion. I'd certainly not want to rule them out, but I would remind askers of the SE dictum that "real questions have answers": CV isn't a blog; nor is it a discussion forum. (I'd also note that some of the examples of topics you give seem to fall into more general philosophy &amp;c. of Science or Mathematics rather than specifically of Statistics, but if you swapped e.g. Crosby’s <em>The Measure of Reality</em> for Hacking's <em>The Emergence of Probability</em> I'd answer "on-topic".)</p>

<p>Most migrated (not "relegated"!) questions go to Stack Overflow, &amp; many closed questions are closed because they "focus on programming, debugging, or performing routine operations within a statistical computing platform".
A tricky issue here is whether a latent statistical question can be discerned in a post that prima facie doesn't ask one. More inconsistency than we'd like in their treatment seems inevitable; but a hard-line policy of insisting on statistical questions asked in English (together with mathematical notation) would put CV's help beyond the reach of people having great need of it.</p>
