{"id":1481,"date":"2013-04-02T20:29:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2013-04-02T20:29:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:29:02","slug":"results-of-a-citizen-scientist-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Results of a citizen scientist survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

A survey of\u00a0 people participating in the Galaxy Zoo<\/a> project provides a profile of the average citizen scientist\u00a0 : What Makes Citizen Scientists Tick? – MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/p>\n

The results are curious. Unsurprisingly, Galaxy Zoo volunteers are overwhelmingly male with 82.1per cent being men. There is also a particular over-abundance in the 50-60 age group. Overall, the volunteers have an average age of 43 and over 60 per cent come from the US and UK.<\/p>\n

What is mildly surprising is their motivation for taking part. The survey asked volunteers to give their primary reason and this turned out not to be things\u00a0like enjoying looking at pretty pictures of galaxies or the fun of it all. Instead, more than 40 per cent of volunteers say that the desire to contribute to science is their primary motivation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A survey of\u00a0 people participating in the Galaxy Zoo project provides a profile of the average citizen scientist\u00a0 : What Makes Citizen Scientists Tick? – MIT Technology Review The results are curious. Unsurprisingly, Galaxy Zoo volunteers are overwhelmingly male with 82.1per cent being men. There is also a particular over-abundance in the 50-60 age group. … Continue reading Results of a citizen scientist survey<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-nT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10042,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10042","url_meta":{"origin":1481,"position":0},"title":"Galaxy Zoo citizen scientists match experts in ID of radio sources & host galaxies","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A\u00a0paper reporting on research carried out with the help of\u00a0more than\u00a04900 participants in the citizen science project\u00a0Radio Galaxy Zoo, a member\u00a0of the\u00a0Zooniverse\u00a0array\u00a0of citizen science\u00a0projects, has been\u00a0submitted to\u00a0a scientific journal:\u00a0First Radio Galaxy Zoo paper has been submitted! -\u00a0Galaxy Zoo. 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