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Project Discovery: Burying the needle

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Galaxxis
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#21 - 2016-03-22 00:29:59 UTC
Annemariela Antonela wrote:
Galaxxis wrote:
Annemariela Antonela wrote:


Eh, I was afraid of that too. I assume level increases and AK payouts continue though, yes?

It might be time for a Project Discovery expansion pack. Project Discovery: The Cytoskeleton King.


Yes, actual level and AK payouts are continuing to increase.


You seem to be rather dedicated to the Project, so I wonder if this has occurred to you as well:

Isn't there an inbuilt disinclination, being that there can be no further accuracy gained beyond 99.0%, to continue in our heretofore diligent analyses? What I mean is, we have an entire nine-tenths of a percent of "accuracy capital" to spend, wherein we might just decide to go really fast to maximize ISK and AK payouts, not caring if it diminishes our accuracy rating, so long as we return to more careful examination before we drop below 98.1%.

It seems to me that this might introduce a lot of critical inaccuracies where they can be least afforded-- we are the analysts who are given the most new samples after all.

Judges?


I can already go as fast as possible on two clients at once with minimal errors. Then again I'm probably not representative of many of the people participating in the project. I'm not really sure this will be an issue, since one thing people hate more than not doing well is doing well and then losing that elevated status. Also, in a project like this even if some people make mistakes the overall consensus SHOULD more often than not converge to the correct answer.

I think a bigger issue might be that everyone will just get bored of the project over time and participation will drop off dramatically. That's true in general of citizen science projects, to varying degrees.
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