We are seeing roughly 35% higher retention rate among contributors of Discussions vs Q&A — meaning users that contribute in Discussions are more likely to return and contribute again.
I have a hard time believing this can even be compared as the difference in userbase size between the two has to be at least a couple orders of magnitude.
If you're saying that a third of less than 1% became more engaged that doesn't project anything meaningful.
Let me see if I really understand this:
There are 32 discussions for NLP.
There are 38,811 questions on NLP.
So that's a difference of over 3 orders of magnitude, and you saw a 33% increase in those 32 posts? Those are some amazing conclusions being drawn, it kind of defies my ability to grasp the whole concept. Sir, I am awe struck!