Luca

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:28 PM, John Riedl <riedl@cs.umn.edu> wrote:

I'm a big fan of "participants". Subjects sounds passive and
"operated on" -- which is not a good description of most Wikipedians!

John

P.S. One of our most memorable moments in researching MovieLens was
when we launched a new A/B study and our participants figured out what
we were doing by comparing notes on our bulletin boards. One of them
wrote:

"Once again, thanks for the site. I react in this way, also in part,
because probably your widget counters are also gauging this, and I
wanted to be an honest little white rat! See: Charly & Of Mice and
Men"

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Parul Vora <pvora@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> "subjects" is definitely typical, but in my experience and conversations
> (mostly at this years wikisym and wikimania) wikipedians feel more
> comfortable with "participants" and i try to use it where it doesn't
> confuse/dilute.
>
> On 10/19/10 1:08 PM, Luca de Alfaro wrote:
>
> No, no! "Informants" are the kind that needs FBI protection! :)
> "subjects" is the usual words, "human guinea-pigs" would be less ambiguous,
> but... :)
> Luca
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:00, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> > 2010/10/18 Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org>:
>> >>subject-matter recruitment
>> >
>> > OK, this is definitely the last time I made this typo. I mean
>> > recruiting subjects for research projects. :-)
>>
>> May we redefine it as something like "recruiting informants for
>> research projects"? My first parsing of "subjects" is "topics" and I
>> don't think that I am alone in that.
>>
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