Is Crowdsourcing the Answer to our Data Diversity Problem?

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English - November 11, 2020 05:01 - 30 minutes - 28 MB - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
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Traditional scientific research has a data diversity problem. Online platforms, such as Mechanical Turk, give researchers access to a wider variety and greater volume of subjects, but they are not without their issues. Our hosts are joined by experts David S. Jones, Ilka Gleibs, and Jeffrey Bigham to discuss the pros and cons of knowledge production using crowdsourced data.