When I announced SciCast in January, I said we couldn’t pay participants. Alas, many associated folks are skeptical of paying because they’ve heard that “extrinsic” motives just don’t work well relative to “intrinsic” motives. No need to pay folks since what really matters is if they feel involved. This view is quite widespread in academia and government.
I was thinking I'd do the same thing (and that's triggered by "All the Ships at Sea" being available at Amazon), but it just doesn't feel right voting when I feel much more ignorant than the other participants. But now I feel stupid for not closely scrutinized the above text using up some opportunities for less-ignorant forecasting today, when the only prize is badges.
Your edits today were a little too noisy to all count. A little more signal please.
Wow! :)
SciCast hit 850 edits this Tuesday. Previous daily record was 300.
The special starts May 26.
I was thinking I'd do the same thing (and that's triggered by "All the Ships at Sea" being available at Amazon), but it just doesn't feel right voting when I feel much more ignorant than the other participants. But now I feel stupid for not closely scrutinized the above text using up some opportunities for less-ignorant forecasting today, when the only prize is badges.
I didn't even know this existed, but will be happy to try it out.
I will happily contribute noise for gift cards!