As of 11/15/2008:
On average, 31,000 new questions are asked every day and about 8,000 new answers are added every day. Now the 8,000 new answers aren't necessarily related to the 31,000 new questions, this is just the average we get every day.
According to Quantcast, 67.7 million viewed a page on the WikiAnswers section of Answers.com during the 6 months ending 7/13/2010. There are 9,097,884 answered questions on WikiAnswers as of 7/13/2010.
WikiAnswers does not provide statistics on how many questions have been asked, but they do provide statistics on how many questions have been answered, so we will use that number.As of 3/4/12 there are 15,338,154 answers.Assuming that questions take an average of 4 questions to read:(15,338,154) * (4) = 61,352,616 seconds.Minutes: 1,022,543,000,000,000,000Hours: 17,042,000,000,000,000Days: 710,000,000,000,000
many times like this one was just answered
controlled function A person does have influence on how questions are answered. This is known to be from a controlled function.
Check out the un-answered questions section of answers.com, there are a lot of questions the average american does not know. (which is why they ask)
There are over 20 million questions on WikiAnswers. Without doing the math, it is extremely unlikely.
It depends on the complexity of your question and how you asked it. The more complex it is, the less likely it will get answered, therefore making the average time longer. If you worded it oddly, it will also lengthen the average time.
On average, about two to three categories are requested every day on WikiAnswers. Categories are usually reviewed weekly by Community Assistants. See related questions for more information on requesting categories.
Well that depends on what YOU do to influence it.
This varies from person to person, age to age, gender to gender. The average height can only be considered when the previous questions are answered.
WikiAnswers tries to write on an average level, which works out to be around fifth grade reading level. Some of the more basic questions will have lower reading levels because they are obviously written by younger kids or people who don't speak very good English, and some of the harder questions are written at college level because they are obviously college type questions, but the average will be around fifth grade.
In MLB in the 2009 season, in the National League the average on base percentage was .331 and the average slugging percentage was .409. In the American League, the average on base percentage was .336 and the average slugging percentage was .428.