[Nick-Craver]

12,095,709 questions have an answer, 7,506,004 of those have an accepted answer, and 1,813,270 aren't yet answered.

I'd say your 1:20 ratio is just a little bit off :)

[tallanvor]

Just out of curiosity, do those 7.5+ million accepted answers include those closed as duplicates? Because by far my biggest complaint is finding the exact question I have was closed as a duplicate and links to a question that is useless at answering my question.

[ygra]

In that case you can vote to re-open and perhaps even post a bounty. Although bounties tend to invite lots of low-quality, low-effort answers just on the off chance that they might be the top-voted one once the bounty runs out.

[linkregister]

Thanks for the correction! I am asking pretty niche questions.

[lucb1e]

I feel you. I've taught myself programming between 13 and, well, I'm now 23; so by the time stackoverflow came around I had figured out how to solve things myself. When I have a question, it's usually either opinion-based (bad fit for SO) or not a common question.

I'd say 1:20 is a good estimate if I ignore answers that didn't read my question (which is most of them), but indeed the facts disagree.