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Crowdsourcing

Tuesday, 7 April 2009 15:14 by boxshapedwo
I would have probably given up this topic by now, but I was listening to the excellent Digital Planet the other day when it came up again.  It was an interesting take on it.  They are using volunteers ("non-experts") to classify and organize the hundreds of thousands of images of galaxies produced by the Hubble telescope (or others).  The organizer was originally worried that the experts would challenge the results, but he found that the volunteers actually worked better than an expert.  This was because the volunteers did not approach the problem with the same pre-conceived notions that an expert would.  This happened to coincide with something I was reading, where the author explained why philosophy has a fixation with jargon and creating new words.  Essentially it is the same, by using new words it allows the reader to step back and not approach the problem with all their pre-conceived notions.  I can appreciate this.  Just thought I would share.
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