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8. Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Online Quiz Questions

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30 questions

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An emergency organization is using volunteers to identify earthquake damage in aerial images. Which quality-control design is most appropriate for uncertain or high-consequence map entries?

A
Publish the first volunteer's result without review
B
Assign the image to multiple volunteers and send uncertain areas to experts
C
Allow volunteers to change one another's answers until they reach informal agreement
D
Use only the fastest volunteer for each image

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Which condition best explains why a crowdsourced group may produce useful collective intelligence rather than merely a large pile of responses?

A
A crowd becomes intelligent whenever it has more than one hundred participants
B
Collective intelligence requires every participant to reach the same initial opinion
C
Collective intelligence is more likely when contributions are relevant, reasonably independent, diverse, and effectively combined
D
Collective intelligence requires that all contributors be professional specialists

True or false

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True or false: Paying crowdworkers for each completed task can increase speed while also creating a risk that accuracy will decline.

A
True
B
False

True or false

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True or false: A crowdsourcing project can reproduce social or geographic bias because its participants may not represent the wider population.

A
True
B
False

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What two-word term describes useful group-level knowledge, judgments, or solutions that can emerge when individual contributions are effectively combined?

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What quality-control technique inserts tasks with known answers to identify careless or deceptive crowd responses?

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Complete the quality-control plan: Assigning the same item to multiple participants provides , while asking specialists to examine difficult or high-consequence submissions provides .

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Complete the ethical design principle: A crowdsourcing project should explain its goals and decision rules through and provide ways to challenge errors or identify responsibility through .

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Select all benefits that a well-designed crowdsourcing project may provide.

A
A large group can perform or review more work than a small internal team
B
The project is guaranteed to cost less than an internal team
C
An open call can reach specialists outside the sponsoring organization
D
Participants may contribute local knowledge or different experiences

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Select all approaches that are recognized quality-control techniques for crowdsourced work.

A
Give precise instructions, examples, and decision rules
B
Provide practice tasks with feedback before official work
C
Accept the majority answer without regard to participant knowledge
D
Combine judgments using a method such as weighted averages or reliability models

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An organization is choosing between a competitive prize and a broader reward structure for an innovation contest. Which limitation of the prize model should it consider?

A
A prize always produces more collaboration than payment per task
B
A prize removes the need to define quality standards
C
A prize may attract talented participants while discouraging collaboration and compensating only the winner
D
A prize guarantees that contributors will share ownership of the resulting work

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Select all practices that support ethically responsible crowdsourcing.

A
Explain how contributions will be used
B
Protect personal data and collect it only when necessary
C
Assume that a large dataset is ethical if it is useful
D
Provide fair compensation or attribution when appropriate

Open ended

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Design a responsible crowdsourced mapping process for identifying earthquake damage from aerial images. Explain how the process should obtain useful results quickly while managing uncertainty, inaccurate submissions, participant bias, privacy, and the consequences of errors.

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Which situation best illustrates how groupthink can undermine collective intelligence?

A
A larger crowd automatically cancels every individual error
B
A crowd can amplify an error when participants copy one another or repeat misleading information
C
Aggregation always gives experts less accurate results than random guessing
D
Groupthink occurs only when participants are paid

True or false

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True or false: Crowdsourcing involves opening some part of a task to a large, often distributed group rather than assigning it only to employees or specialists.

A
True
B
False

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Which option best describes collective intelligence?

A
The total number of people in the group
B
The useful knowledge or solutions produced by effectively combining contributions
C
The amount of money paid to participants
D
The number of online platforms used

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What term describes the ability of a group to produce knowledge, judgments, or solutions that can be more useful than those produced by any one individual?

True or false

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True or false: A crowd automatically produces intelligent results as long as it contains many participants.

A
True
B
False

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An emergency organization has outdated maps after an earthquake. Which crowdsourcing approach would most directly address this problem?

A
Invite volunteers to add damaged buildings and roads to a map for emergency responders
B
Ask one specialist to create a permanent map without public input
C
Collect unrelated product ideas from online participants
D
Use crowdworkers to rank entertainment preferences

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What quality-control technique assigns the same item to multiple participants so their independent responses can be compared?

True or false

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True or false: Majority voting is reliable for every crowdsourcing task, regardless of participant expertise or task difficulty.

A
True
B
False

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A project pays workers for each completed task and notices that they rush. According to the material, which quality goal may be sacrificed when payment emphasizes speed?

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Complete the sentence with two quality-control techniques: Before collecting official contributions, a project should use to provide precise instructions and decision rules, and to let participants complete sample tasks and receive feedback.

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A disaster-mapping project identifies damaged buildings in photographs that may reveal residents’ personal information. Which plan best reflects the material’s ethical guidance?

A
Publish every photograph and exact location without review
B
Discard all volunteer contributions because privacy is always incompatible with mapping
C
Release map data needed by responders while protecting sensitive personal information
D
Allow volunteers to decide privately how the organization may use other people’s data

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What term describes small crowdwork tasks such as tagging images, checking documents, or labeling text?

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A public-health project receives contributions mainly from people with reliable internet access and strong interest in the topic. What is the most important concern raised by this participation pattern?

A
Recruiting more participants always removes bias
B
Using an online platform guarantees geographic representation
C
Participation can be shaped by internet access, language, education, time, location, income, or interest
D
Crowd contributions are unbiased whenever they are unpaid

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Which statement best describes collective intelligence?

A
Any result produced by a group, regardless of its quality
B
Useful group-level knowledge or solutions that emerge when individual contributions are effectively combined
C
A task completed entirely by paid employees
D
A system in which every participant must agree

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Which situation is most suitable for crowdsourcing according to the material?

A
A task that requires one person to maintain complete control of every step
B
A task with a single obvious solution that cannot be divided
C
A task that can be divided into independent units and benefits from many possible solutions or local knowledge
D
A task for which participants cannot receive instructions or feedback

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Why can crowdsourced data reflect social, geographic, or cultural bias even when many people participate?

A
Participation conditions can make the crowd differ systematically from the wider population
B
A larger number of participants always eliminates social bias
C
Participants are representative whenever they contribute voluntarily
D
Bias occurs only when participants intentionally submit false information

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An emergency mapping project receives conflicting damage assessments for a hospital. Which quality-control response best matches the material?

A
Remove all responses that disagree with the first submitted answer
B
Use majority voting alone, regardless of task difficulty
C
Allow participants to revise answers without any review or validation
D
Have specialists examine difficult, unusual, or high-consequence submissions