Evaluating the ability of citizen scientists to identify bumblebee (Bombus) species
Evaluating the ability of citizen scientists to identify bumblebee (Bombus) species
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0218614
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发表时间：
2019-06-24
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Smith, Barbara
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作者：
Falk, Steven;Foster, Gemma;Smith, Barbara
公民科学是一种越来越受欢迎的让志愿者参与收集科学数据的方式。尽管如此，数据质量仍然是一个问题，几乎没有公开的证据表明公民科学家生成的记录的准确性。在这里，我们比较了两个英国公民科学项目，开花蜜蜂和BeeWatch，以确定志愿者记录识别大黄蜂（熊蜂）物种的能力所产生的数据。我们从两个方面评估了记录者的识别能力-记录者准确性（专家验证记录被记录者正确识别的比例）和记录者成功率（记录者提交的识别被验证者确认正确的比例）。记录器识别能力低（
Citizen science is an increasingly popular way of engaging volunteers in the collection of scientific data. Despite this, data quality remains a concern and there is little published evidence about the accuracy of records generated by citizen scientists. Here we compare data generated by two British citizen science projects, Blooms for Bees and BeeWatch, to determine the ability of volunteer recorders to identify bumblebee (Bombus) species. We assessed recorders' identification ability in two ways-as recorder accuracy (the proportion of expert-verified records correctly identified by recorders) and recorder success (the proportion of recorder-submitted identifications confirmed correct by verifiers). Recorder identification ability was low (