As a psychologist, I spent years of my life running experiments in a lab the traditional way: emailing volunteers one by one, scheduling them for an hour in my calendar, and guiding them through the tasks I want them to complete. In a good month I’d have a dataset with 20 participants and I’d spend… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Experiments
What Color is this? in 9 languages
I’ve always wanted to re-do some of the scientific studies of the past, like the World Color Survey. While I don’t have plane tickets or time to travel the world, I do have access to CrowdFlower’s 4 million contributors to re-test hypotheses about the universality of color-naming. Four years ago, we showed English language speakers random… Read more »
Did you say “Great!”, or “Oh Great!”?
Being tapped to write a blog post here at CrowdFlower is usually left to the experts. So with that, let me begin by making the disclaimer that I am neither a political analyst nor a data scientist. But I do have a personal fervor for politics and access to some impressive tools, thanks to my job… Read more »
Crowdsourcing and Retention: From First-Timers to Seasoned Veterans
Millions of people have participated in our tasks over the last few years, and tens of thousands of people are active at any given moment. However, crowdsourcing is not a traditional engagement model. Tasks are elective, which means people are free to come and go as they please. It’s a fair question, then, to ask whether they… Read more »
Crowdsourcing a Map, to Eat
Last May, I took a trip to Italy for two weeks. A little bit of history: my friend Jessica and I are both Italophiles, and when her mom sent us a link to a video contest where the prize was a round trip flight to Italy, we knew we had to enter. After a week… Read more »