Citizen science is sometimes
described as "public participation in scientific research", in other
words, scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by ordinary people
who are, to say so, amateur scientists. A citizen science project can involve
one person or millions of people collaborating towards a common goal.
Typically, public involvement is in data collection, analysis, or reporting.
Here are four common features
of citizen science practice:
· Anyone can
participate,
· participants use
the same protocol so data can be combined and be high quality,
· data can help real
scientists come to real conclusions, and
· a wide community
of scientists and volunteers work together and share data to which the public,
as well as scientists, have access.
The fields that citizen
science advances are diverse: ecology, astronomy, medicine, computer science,
statistics, psychology, genetics, engineering and many more. The massive
collaborations that can occur through citizen science allow investigations at
continental and global scales and across decades—leading to discovery that a
single scientist could never achieve on their own.
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