I agree with the listed 8 goals in last section of the article, and also think online technologies have a role in (possibly) meeting them.
I am interested in this topic but more from a theoretical perspective (mathematics, data analytics, statistics and probability, psychology and economics—complexity theory).
Partly because of my interest I have participated in several of these online research studies (most recently the SWARM intelligence study conducted by a group in Australia (i think U Melbourne) which was funded by US DoD , and one from a university in New York. I found most of these online studies (which involve answering questions ) too time consuming, so many of them i dropped out of. Hence one ends up with ‘sample selection bias’ problems. This is similar to polling issues—when they only poll people who have smart phone numbers.
Hence i’m interested in how accurate these research studies are----perhaps I (and others like me) are ‘outliers’ (i have a smart phone but dont use it inside). Similar ideas are discussed by Heinrich in his paper W.E.I.R.D people published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences several years ago.
I agree with the listed 8 goals in last section of the article, and also think online technologies have a role in (possibly) meeting them. I am interested in this topic but more from a theoretical perspective (mathematics, data analytics, statistics and probability, psychology and economics—complexity theory).
Partly because of my interest I have participated in several of these online research studies (most recently the SWARM intelligence study conducted by a group in Australia (i think U Melbourne) which was funded by US DoD , and one from a university in New York. I found most of these online studies (which involve answering questions ) too time consuming, so many of them i dropped out of.
Hence one ends up with ‘sample selection bias’ problems.
This is similar to polling issues—when they only poll people who have smart phone numbers.
Hence i’m interested in how accurate these research studies are----perhaps I (and others like me) are ‘outliers’ (i have a smart phone but dont use it inside). Similar ideas are discussed by Heinrich in his paper W.E.I.R.D people published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences several years ago.