By bluerasberry on 2016-03-24
Wikipedia’s content typically has at least okay accuracy and its audience is huge, plus its accuracy is inexpensive to improve to the quality level of any other source. Other communication channels may or may not have more accurate than Wikipedia, but almost always they serve a smaller audience, and it is expensive to increase traffic […]
Posted in New York City, research, Wikipedia | Tagged communications, survey
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-27
I am concerned about researchers recruiting Wikipedia community volunteers as human subject participants in their research when they need people to take surveys or be interviewed. The major problems with research on the Wikipedia community is that time in research is time taken away from Wikipedia community activities and research done by outsiders to the […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged survey, volunteer
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-12
Nandan and I talk about Sanjeevani Booti continuously. This is the name for the HIV NGO which we are founding. The website is up. Nandan did not know what AIDS was before, and now he knows the basics. He has probed the community for similar organizations and we know what exists. He has talked with […]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle, work | Tagged AIDS, license, megacorp, Mehdiganj, NGO, PSA, Sanjeevani Booti, survey, tea, tourism, Varanasi
By bluerasberry on 2007-09-18
I got two jobs last weekend. Yesterday, Monday, I started one of them. It was with a company that does interviews over the phone, and they are in Seattle. Their call center has about thirty phones and they also do focus groups. My first assignment is to do a survey about pesticide use in Oregon. […]
Posted in work | Tagged data, survey