empirical studies about the benefit of q&a sites on programming [on hold]

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Published on 2013-07-02T13:30:32Z Indexed on 2013/07/02 17:14 UTC
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I'm looking for empirical papers which investigate if a user can benefit from q&a sites like Stack Overflow. I welcome any papers related to this topic e.g:

an experiment, investigating if a specific task can be executed faster,
an analysis, investigating if a user understands the solutions on q&a sites or if he just does copy&paste without thinking about it,
a comparative analysis of the code quality of users with access to q&a sites in contrast to users without internet access (but just offline documentation of APIs)

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