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| May 8, 2012 at 22:54 | comment | added | Jim In Texas | Direct on topic workplace experience as answer backup is totally relevant. It will greatly decrease the value of this site if experienced professionals are not permitted to answer based on their personal experience. Isn't this a site for working professionals, not just academics? | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 22:44 | comment | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | @gilles - The problem is it can be quite a bit of work to dig up references on problems you have already dealt with and know the answer to. So if "serious experience" is an acceptable alternative to a citation people will overwhelmingly choose to go with the "serious experience" which will look a lot like what we have now unless we have some criteria requirement to that. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 22:15 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Chad Which is why I'd prefer citations. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 22:12 | comment | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | @Giles - How can I prove that I have 20 years of IT Experience? Does my 20 years of IT Experience mean that I know the difference between and Interface and an Abstract method? I know these are off topic but they point to the problem with requiring serious experience. How do you prove you fit that requirement? | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 21:42 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @IsaacMoses I support having a “back it up” rule, but not in the sense of Parenting (I think it would be useless if not counterproductive, for the reasons Chad highlights in another thread). | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 21:33 | comment | added | Isaac Moses | Indeed, it does. But your closing line seems to indicate the opposite. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 21:32 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @IsaacMoses My opening sentence should make it clear that I agree. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 21:28 | comment | added | Isaac Moses | it sounds like you agree with "Back it up" in principle, and you're specifying what sort of statement of experience ought to count. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 21:23 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @IsaacMoses The first is worthless. The second is worthwhile. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 21:14 | comment | added | Isaac Moses | ... If you want to draw a line somewhere between "anecdotes" and "serious experience," fine, though I think that might be the exact line you leave up to voting to determine. What I think ought to be required, though, where a citation is not available, is some explanation of where the answerer came up with this answer, where "I tried this once, and it worked." and "I've seen this both ways 1000 times in my role as a manager, and 90% of the time, the first way works." are both valid answers that can be evaluated by the community, unlike unbacked-up raw opinion. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 21:11 | comment | added | Isaac Moses | It seems to me that there'd be an approximately equivalent amount of science available for the workplace and for parenting. Child development is a huge and multidisciplinary field of study. In both cases, however, there are going to be questions for which there aren't scientific studies that provide the answers. As I see it, there are three possible routes for those questions: 1) Leave them unanswered. 2) Permit/encourage answers with nothing backing them up other than the answerer's assertion. 3) Permit/encourage answers backed up by the answerer's experience. ... | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 20:57 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |