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Knowledge didn't include the answer "for fun", and someone there from a similar mass volunteer project suggested that based on their research that would have been the dominant answer if our volunteer base was similar to theirs. The Russian data was tested and eventually incorporated because in many ways it was similar to that from other projects. I think it was this research project where they didn't separate out arts and culture from popular culture and were surprised at how much of the Wiki activity was arts and culture, whilst the feedback from the room was that excluding the under 18s had probably resulted in an under representation of the amount of pop culture editing on the pedias. They didn't seem to have done a weighting or sampling exercise to turn the survey into a representative one, though possibly this was because they wouldn't have known what to weight against... And their way to deal with vandalism was to exclude the under 18s rather than to include logic traps to identify and screen out vandal responses. But still 175,000 responses made for some interesting slides.
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