Timeline for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
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| May 15, 2020 at 14:43 | comment | added | barlop | @AnderBiguri well if they ever think of rerunning it then ^ | |
| May 15, 2020 at 14:02 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | @barlop this was about an experiment that finished over 2 years ago... | |
| May 15, 2020 at 12:50 | comment | added | barlop | oh please, that's pathetic, so maybe mentors then need to be blocked from voting on mentees questions.. why can't mentors control themselves to make sure the system isn't bias and is a fair test. Perhaps that should be added to the mentor guide document | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 15:25 | comment | added | Petter Friberg | Normally if lucky we were 2-3 people in chat, just to clarify that according to me the question did not really have higher exposure, maybe more a mentor - mentee relationship, hence some mentor certainly upvoted some mentee question | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 15:21 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | @PetterFriberg 63 people is just the number of mentors. But yes, some upvotes must have been from mentors, perhaps some downvotes also. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 15:19 | comment | added | Petter Friberg | @AnderBiguri 63 people?, maybe 2-3 checked the question when it entered, but after posted I can't remember that I went often to questions that I did not mentor myself (maybe a few times when mentor complained in chat that OP did not listen and went on to post off-topic question, to review it on site and take appropriate actions), but true for the question you mentored yourself, if OP improved question and something nice and interesting came out, after editing on site I up-voted a few. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 20:13 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | "But yeah, ultimately I think it should be at least tested." Not should. I would think it must be tested if you want to know if mentoring did really help. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 15:10 | comment | added | Servy | @AnderBiguri That's what I was trying to say. If I implied that you were upvoting bad quesitons, then I didn't mean that. I understood your point as saying you were upvoting good questions that you otherwise wouldn't have, due to the increased attention. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 15:02 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | @Servy yes and no. While that could have happened, my point is that we were 63 people having increased exposure to questions. Perhaps just the higher exposure to the questions made us upvote more. I never dwell in JAVA lands, but I needed to do several times during mentorship, and some people did actually write a good question. But yeah, ultimately I think it should be at least tested. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 15:00 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | @Servy Fair enough. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 15:00 | comment | added | Servy | @JoeFriend Sure, but Ander's point is that it's possible that the mentor questions didn't have a higher score because they were a better question, but just because mentors upvoted the questions even though they had an on average equal quality. If that's were the case, then the mentorship didn't improve quality, it just changed the measurement of it. Of course, that's a hypothesis that would need to be tested in the data before acting on it, naturally. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:59 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | @yannis My point is that creating human connections where we learn to care about the person we're helping isn't so bad. Also, it was said with a bit of levity. Why so serious? | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:57 | comment | added | yannis | @JoeFriend That's... not how these sites are supposed to work. Let's not turn upvotes into likes, ok? | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:46 | history | edited | Ander Biguri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:45 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | @CodyGray To be more clear: I did not upvote every mentee question, nor my mentees questions. I did upvote following my general upvote criteria. But I would not have had exposure to those questions if I was not a mentor | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:43 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | I'm honestly not sure that human beings feeling empathy for each other and showing support with an upvote is a bad thing. Especially if this is saved for people who showed an effort to improve their question. But then I'm a soppy, sentimental kinda person. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:39 | comment | added | Magisch | @KristinaLustig Speaking as a mentor, I did that a couple of times, in those times where I thought there was a really solid question coming out of the mentorship. Likewise, when people insisted on posting their bad question despite my advice, I also did downvote / closevote as appropriate. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:35 | comment | added | Cody Gray Mod | Heh. Automatic upvotes because the question showed research effort: they participated in a mentorship chat. Maybe not the best idea. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:34 | comment | added | kristinalustig StaffMod | That's a really good point. I'm going to look into that: I wonder how common it was for mentors to upvote their mentee's questions, or if it was something that you and a couple others did only? | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 14:30 | history | answered | Ander Biguri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
