Table 4. Participation metrics extracted from log files.
Metric | Definition | N | Minimum value | Maximum value | Median | SD |
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Number of contributions | Number of classifications made by young people | 27 | 1 | 9966 | 499 | 2849 |
Activity ratio | The ratio of days contributing at least one classification to the total days registered with Zooniverse. The closer to one, the more active a user is Average time devoted on completing a task in seconds | 27 | .01 | 10 | .05 | 0.32 |
Mean time devoted | Average time devoted on completing a task in seconds | 27 | 8.8 | 2699 | 98 | 641 |
ESA1 | Aspect of ESA | 27 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1.12 |
ESA2 | Aspect of ESA | 27 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0.96 |
ESA3 | Aspect of ESA | 27 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1.15 |
ESA_all | Combined ESA aspects | 27 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 2.05 |
It is noted that Zooniverse users can contribute to projects without being logged in the platform and these contributions cannot be captured by log files. Therefore, these numbers may not be accurate for some of the users.