Comments on: UofM says paid Q&A sites get best results http://web-owls.com/2008/04/15/uofm-says-paid-qa-sites-get-best-results/ Searching and Researching Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:58:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: eiffel http://web-owls.com/2008/04/15/uofm-says-paid-qa-sites-get-best-results/#comment-39024 eiffel Wed, 07 May 2008 21:09:22 +0000 http://web-owls.com/2008/04/15/uofm-says-paid-qa-sites-get-best-results/#comment-39024 esseffen, thanks for your comments. Does the clarification system of Uclue work OK? I'd say so. What about letting answerers bid on questions? In a sense, it's already a market, because a question doesn't get answered unless the questioner posts a price that's enough to make it worthwhile for the answerer. But to have researchers bidding against each other? No, that would make for a very disheartening work environment, and at Uclue we have quite a cordial, helpful behind-the-scenes co-operation amongst researchers. esseffen, thanks for your comments.

Does the clarification system of Uclue work OK? I’d say so. What about letting answerers bid on questions? In a sense, it’s already a market, because a question doesn’t get answered unless the questioner posts a price that’s enough to make it worthwhile for the answerer. But to have researchers bidding against each other? No, that would make for a very disheartening work environment, and at Uclue we have quite a cordial, helpful behind-the-scenes co-operation amongst researchers.

]]> By: Max http://web-owls.com/2008/04/15/uofm-says-paid-qa-sites-get-best-results/#comment-35896 Max Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:49:09 +0000 http://web-owls.com/2008/04/15/uofm-says-paid-qa-sites-get-best-results/#comment-35896 Heh - you could interpret the considerable delay between conducting the research and getting it through the peer review and publication process as a "luxury". However, it's also a bit of a frustration...we conducted this particular study in late 2006! However, the delay does allow substantial time to reflect and write, which can be beneficial, as the larger picture of a research result is not always immediately recognizable. Thanks for the post, Max Heh - you could interpret the considerable delay between conducting the research and getting it through the peer review and publication process as a “luxury”. However, it’s also a bit of a frustration…we conducted this particular study in late 2006! However, the delay does allow substantial time to reflect and write, which can be beneficial, as the larger picture of a research result is not always immediately recognizable.

Thanks for the post,

Max

]]> By: esseffen http://web-owls.com/2008/04/15/uofm-says-paid-qa-sites-get-best-results/#comment-34948 esseffen Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:22:26 +0000 http://web-owls.com/2008/04/15/uofm-says-paid-qa-sites-get-best-results/#comment-34948 Great stuff - thanks for the link! What did you think about their comment that Google Answers researchers "appear to have internalized a model of how much a question is 'worth'"? They imply questions that were priced either too high or too low didn't get any answers or very good ones. Does the clarification system on uclue work ok? What about letting answerers bid on questions? Great stuff - thanks for the link!

What did you think about their comment that Google Answers researchers “appear to have internalized a model of how much a question is ‘worth’”? They imply questions that were priced either too high or too low didn’t get any answers or very good ones.

Does the clarification system on uclue work ok? What about letting answerers bid on questions?

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