On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Steven Walling
<steven.walling(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I concur with Phil. That thing is more press
stunt than it is a conclusive
scientific study. The key thing that makes me discount it is, just like in
a
survey of articles, Wikipedia as a community is both gargantuan and
diverse.
The motivation and character of the long tail of contributors who steadily
make a few edits a month is obviously vastly different than the top hundred
editors by number of edits. I've yet to see a serious sociologist break
down
and study the community like they would a meatspace culture (though there
are those doing so from a purely statistical perspective).
Steven
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Phil Nash <pn007a2145(a)blueyonder.co.uk
wrote:
Eddie Tejeda wrote:
> 'Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism
are the fuel of online
> social production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of
> the character traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of
> Israeli research psychologists gave personality tests to 69
> Wikipedians and 70 non-Wikipedians. They discovered that, as New
> Scientist puts
> it<
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipedians-…
umpy-and-closedminded.html
,
> Wikipedians are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and
"closed to
> new ideas."'
>
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_sour_wikipe.php
>
> I wonder how the mailing list will react....
1. Small sample, making statistical significance difficult to assess
2. Selected sample, meaning likewise - did the Wikipedians contribute to
en:wiki or other wikis?
2a. Sample selection for non-Wikipedia editors? How and from where?
3. If the questionnaire isn't published, it's incapable of independent
analysis for bias in the questions asked
4. Peer-reviewed research by whom?
and that's just for starters. I look forward to seeing the whole lot,
because I, for one, disbelieve such wide conclusions.
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