Support demand across participants is concentrated: the most active decile accounts for 34.6% of queries and 42.9% of participants raised exactly one query¶

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q2 i? Across the 1,434 participants, mean demand is 2.85 queries (median 2, maximum 36); the most active decile accounts for 34.6% of queries, the most active fifth for 51.9%, and 42.9% of participants raised exactly one query. → Gupta 2026

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Gupta 2026¶

Gupta, J., Ayinampudi, P., Aditya B.M.V., Hegade, P., Sharma, R., Sharma, S., Meenakshi, V., Iyengar, S.R.S. (2026). What Students Actually Ask: Demand Structure and Automation Potential in a Hybrid Support System. arXiv:2609.38967. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38967 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.38967

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Descriptive concentration analysis of query volume across participants in the nine-week deployment record, reported as a Lorenz curve (Fig. 1) and Gini coefficient. The article reports a Gini of 0.447 across participants, with the least active half accounting for 20.0% of volume.

"Across the 1,434 participants, mean demand is 2.85 queries, median 2 and maximum 36. The most active decile accounts for 34.6% of queries and the most active fifth for 51.9%. Exactly one query was raised by 42.9% of participants, and 4.0% raised ten or more."

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