Great the see this innovative research using Wikipedia data!
I have one question in my mind, that is, you use a quality measure from Wikipedia to measure the quality of the wiki answers. However,
-I'm questioning the possibility to directly go from this measure to conclusion that political polarization could affect answer quality. As we can see from figure 1C, the quality of some questions is more centralized. So if the polarized teams tend to be happier to answer these kinds of questions, we could observe the pattern as described. But this pattern cannot be interpreted as causal.
Great the see this innovative research using Wikipedia data!
I have one question in my mind, that is, you use a quality measure from Wikipedia to measure the quality of the wiki answers. However, -I'm questioning the possibility to directly go from this measure to conclusion that
political polarizationcould affect answer quality. As we can see from figure 1C, the quality of some questions is more centralized. So if the polarized teams tend to be happier to answer these kinds of questions, we could observe the pattern as described. But this pattern cannot be interpreted as causal.Thanks