New Applications, and Public Registration
New Applications
A recent idea I hope to roll out within the next two months is a system which will leverage SocSurveys.org's existing infrastructure for a second purpose. Rather than only using the data for the purpose of conducting research, a new proposal for the site would allow survey-takers to take a new kind of survey -- which is meant equally to inform as to research.
The new approach employs a highly-dynamic survey interfaces which constructs new questions for users based on their input to previous questions, but with a twist: the questions are as informational for the user as they are for research purposes.
The challenge of "information overload" affects us all, including our ability to participate in a democracy. If we are not sufficiently abreast of relevant information, democracy becomes subservient to the dynamics of memetics and the media. Although for many, it seems that the choices they're given at the polls are obvious, many Americans don't pay a great deal of attention to important intermediate steps to determining candidacy, namely primaries. When also taking into consideration that democratic participation envelops more than simply casting a ballot, it becomes quite clear that the difficulty to stay informed directly undermines democracy.
The new system that may be added to SocSurveys.org would ask users questions that have been automatically identified as effective metrics for determining what news information each user would like to hear about, but also what information they are likely to not already know.
Public Registration
Although most of our resources are currently being dedicated to the development of our versatile multimedia coding software (affectionately referred to as RIAS Killer) we should be opening public registration before October is over.
At the same time we hope to roll out versatile survey continuations, as well as Standard Information Batteries, which both helps to make research done with SocSurveys.org more valuable, as well as speeding up survey development time, and incentivizing survey participation for survey-takers who have used SocSurveys.org before.
That's all for now!
A recent idea I hope to roll out within the next two months is a system which will leverage SocSurveys.org's existing infrastructure for a second purpose. Rather than only using the data for the purpose of conducting research, a new proposal for the site would allow survey-takers to take a new kind of survey -- which is meant equally to inform as to research.
The new approach employs a highly-dynamic survey interfaces which constructs new questions for users based on their input to previous questions, but with a twist: the questions are as informational for the user as they are for research purposes.
The challenge of "information overload" affects us all, including our ability to participate in a democracy. If we are not sufficiently abreast of relevant information, democracy becomes subservient to the dynamics of memetics and the media. Although for many, it seems that the choices they're given at the polls are obvious, many Americans don't pay a great deal of attention to important intermediate steps to determining candidacy, namely primaries. When also taking into consideration that democratic participation envelops more than simply casting a ballot, it becomes quite clear that the difficulty to stay informed directly undermines democracy.
The new system that may be added to SocSurveys.org would ask users questions that have been automatically identified as effective metrics for determining what news information each user would like to hear about, but also what information they are likely to not already know.
Public Registration
Although most of our resources are currently being dedicated to the development of our versatile multimedia coding software (affectionately referred to as RIAS Killer) we should be opening public registration before October is over.
At the same time we hope to roll out versatile survey continuations, as well as Standard Information Batteries, which both helps to make research done with SocSurveys.org more valuable, as well as speeding up survey development time, and incentivizing survey participation for survey-takers who have used SocSurveys.org before.
That's all for now!
Labels: aggregation, news, politics, sitenews
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