Hanover,
While your contributions are always more than welcome and the impartial nature of your posts are appreciated, there is an underlying problem with the presentation of these facts.
Although, as you have put it, they might be indisputable in the context you have shown, they are still subject to the question that addresses the outcome in terms if individual success for each and every member that is watching, voting or otherwise contributing to those threads.
If the hypothesis that over 90% of people attempting to become successful traders fail over time should hold true, then this would also apply to over 90% of people in any forum, or more specific to your research result.
That in turn would mean that regardless of how many people view or rate an individual thread, it does not reflect the general usefulness, but the subjective view which cannot be objectively measured (unless of course each and every member would keep journals and records of how the information extracted from reading a particular thread has made them better or in fact profitable traders over time).
Where does that leave the value of the forum?
How to quantify the value of such threads?
Look for what they do, claim and for some real evidence that is the foundation for the spoken and written word.
regards
daytrading
While your contributions are always more than welcome and the impartial nature of your posts are appreciated, there is an underlying problem with the presentation of these facts.
Although, as you have put it, they might be indisputable in the context you have shown, they are still subject to the question that addresses the outcome in terms if individual success for each and every member that is watching, voting or otherwise contributing to those threads.
If the hypothesis that over 90% of people attempting to become successful traders fail over time should hold true, then this would also apply to over 90% of people in any forum, or more specific to your research result.
That in turn would mean that regardless of how many people view or rate an individual thread, it does not reflect the general usefulness, but the subjective view which cannot be objectively measured (unless of course each and every member would keep journals and records of how the information extracted from reading a particular thread has made them better or in fact profitable traders over time).
Where does that leave the value of the forum?
How to quantify the value of such threads?
Look for what they do, claim and for some real evidence that is the foundation for the spoken and written word.
regards
daytrading
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