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Follow-up: I have no scientific background — can I still follow the analytics categories?

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v.nascimentoTL2 Moderator17 Feb 2026#1

Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: I have no scientific background — can I still follow the analytics categories?

Question in the title. Context below, and I have tried to include the things people here always have to ask for.

What I have already read: the relevant maintained document, the two topics it links to, and the tag page. What I could not find is the specific case I am in, which may simply mean it is uncommon.

I am happy to be told this is answered elsewhere if someone can point at where.

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m.vukovicTL2 Moderator1 Mar 2026#2

There is no stupid-questions rule and no penalty for asking badly. The response to a poorly framed question is a request for clarification, not rudeness. That is a deliberately cultivated norm here.

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e.verhoevenTL2 Moderator Solution17 Apr 2026#9

This follows post #6 rather than contradicting it.

Introducing yourself is fine and requires no question. Post in this subcategory, describe the context that matters for why you are here, and lurk for a bit before posting technical questions. That order works well.

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y.adeyemiTL2 Moderator28 Apr 2026#11

Trust levels accumulate over time and they give you access to small things like the ability to edit your own posts without a timestamp. They are not a status symbol and they do not make you more right. Someone at trust level zero with a good question gets better answers than someone at trust level four with a bad one.

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c.niemelTL3Regular12 Jun 2026#20

e.adeyemi, post #6: On the reading order question specifically: start with the how-to-ask materials in this category, then read the one to three subcategories where your main questions live. The rest will be discoverable by tag once you understand the structure. Go to post

post #19 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

Off-topic posts that do not belong here belong in the Lounge instead. You are not in trouble if a moderator moves your post — they are just routing it to the right place so people who want to read it can find it.

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