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How will the quality of your results be different from Wolfram alpha who do it without crowd sourcing of course but are quite good?
If that's too hard, at least understand the summary on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Four_eleme...
A quick look at your site and it's clear you don't get point #2 Independence as you're showing people the prior avg before they submit their answer. I'll bet your site will suffer from a lack of #1 Diversity of opinion as well, as most websites tend to gather abnormally high concentrations of like minded people just through the natural ways they acquire and accrete audience.
To Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis: could you make some of the data freely available to the Natural Language Processing community? If this is something that interests people, then it will be worth the time to automate this process. I suspect that there are blog entries, twitts, facebook updates that already answer these questions. Now we have to mine them. "Gold standard" set of Q/A would make it easier. EDIT: But I ho…
e.g.
https://approachio.com/question/7/how-long-should-the-averag...
If you think you're going to harvest the "Wisdom of the Crowds", please go read James Surowiecki's book of the same name. http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/... If that's too hard, at least understand the summary on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Four_eleme... A quick look at your site and it's clear you don't get point #2 Independence as you're showing people th…
I was hoping that because there are many answers above the folder, it might negate information cascading.
Lack of diversity will be definitely be a problem =D
I recall it has somewhat sketchy privacy record (made the news this year with canvas fingerprinting). This website uses AddThis so I thought I’d ask.