When you see questions that sound as if they might be homework questions do you answer them or do you think the questioner should research it for themselves if the homework is going to have any value?
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Brian I
ANSWERS: 17
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I have answered them, but usually with a sly jab.
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As a student, I think that it depends on the situation. You can have a student that isn't necessarilly lazy but may want to reinforce his current research, or after spending hours of trying and getting no where, would like some hands-on answers. Then you also have the lazy student that would automatically ask someone on here. Sure I'm a student but, I don't think that it's necessarilly much worse than researching a website. Think of it this way: Imagine instead of answerbag.com, if a student was inside a library working on a science project where coincidentally a science forum was being held by chemists, physicists etc, would it be wrong to ask them for help?
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It depends. If someone is obviously posting a few questions from his/her homework that they didn't want to do themselves, then I usually don't bother answering it. (Sometimes I do anyway) My preference would be for them to ask for help with the problem within their question. For example "I'm stuck on this homework problem: 4x + 5 = 2x -10, can someone give me advice on how to solve it?" This way, it appears as though they need help in the method of solving it, not just in getting an answer to put on their paper.
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Yes, I am not helping if I give them the answer.
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Usually I pass on those questions!
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I think many of those questions are indeed people asking us to do their homework. I don't bother with them. It's not helping them if I do the work for them. They need to do real research, not just ask on a question and answer site. Every once in awhile I get the urge to deliberately post an incorrect answer just to mess with them, but then I think about it and decide I just couldn't be that mean.
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I don't "refuse" to answer any question. I answer all the questions that I'm able to. If we pick and choose the questions we answer based on flimsy assumptions about the intentions of the asker, then AB fails.
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If I know for a fact that it's a homework question then I won't answer it for them. But if I'm not sure, I do answer. I enjoy the educational questions. I generally have to look up the information so I learn a lot. That's what got me hooked on AB to begin with. A former AB member named drublic posted ton's of educational questions and I loved looking for the answers.
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I can't tell, usually. But even if I can, I still help them out. I'm not some real heavy yellow chicken fascist pig.
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I have no problem helping kids with their homework questions. Sometimes its hard to know where to look to even think about finding the answer you are seeking.
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I answer them if its an interesting and easy question. The kid/teen will get caught out eventually anyway. Maybe there should be a "smells like homework" alarm-pic on the Q page?
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How can you refuse? I love those questions!!!
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I ask them and answer them! :-D
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The latter. The homework wouldn't have been assigned if the intent was to just get the answer from someone else. The process of learning how to find the answer is essential. Arugula!
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I don't usually answer straight up. I will give an example using different values and a resource where they can find the answer. Sometimes I just throw the bone and answer the question. At least they are trying to finish their homework, and getting answers from here is pretty resourceful.
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I usually tell them to do their own homework, but if I know HOW to get the answer, I will explain it step-by-step. If not, or just sometimes if I don't want to do it, I will tell them to see the example that I'm sure is in their book or notes. They shouldn't ask for the answer... but HOW to do it. It's also VERY obvious when they quote the question, exactly, including "using the formula shown", and "compare with your classmates responses" LOL I don't give the answers, because if they're doing a test or quiz, isn't part of the learning process learning HOW to learn, and not look up answers on the 'net? If I see more than one of the same type, and can, I show HOW to do it on one, then tell them to use it as an example for the others.
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Ive answered many science questions, and provided a multitude of information and links, we come here with questions, its not up to me to judge if it is homework or not. If I want to answer, I usually do, regardless of why it was asked.
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