InterPoll: Crowd-Sourced Internet Polls

B. Livshits, Todd Mytkowicz
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Crowd-sourcing is increasingly being used to provide answers to online polls and surveys. However, existing systems, while taking care of the mechanics of attracting crowd workers, poll building, and payment, provide little to help the survey-maker or pollster in obtaining statistically significant results devoid of even the obvious selection biases. This paper proposes InterPoll, a platform for programming of crowd-sourced polls. Pollsters express polls as embedded LINQ queries and the runtime correctly reasons about uncertainty in those polls, only polling as many people as required to meet statistical guarantees. To optimize the cost of polls, InterPoll performs query optimization, as well as bias correction and power analysis. The goal of InterPoll is to provide a system that can be reliably used for research into marketing, social and political science questions. This paper highlights some of the existing challenges and how InterPoll is designed to address most of them. In this paper we summarize some of the work we have already done and give an outline for future work.
InterPoll:众包网络民意调查
众包越来越多地被用于提供在线投票和调查的答案。然而,现有的系统虽然照顾到吸引群众工作人员、建立民意调查和支付的机制,但在帮助调查者或民意调查者获得没有明显选择偏见的统计上有意义的结果方面提供的帮助很少。本文提出了一个众包民意调查的编程平台InterPoll。民意测验者将民意测验表达为嵌入式LINQ查询,运行时正确地推断这些民意测验中的不确定性,只对满足统计保证所需的人数进行民意测验。为了优化民意调查的成本,InterPoll执行查询优化,以及偏差校正和功率分析。InterPoll的目标是提供一个可以可靠地用于研究市场营销、社会和政治科学问题的系统。本文重点介绍了目前存在的一些挑战,以及InterPoll是如何设计来解决这些挑战的。本文总结了我们已经做的一些工作,并对今后的工作进行了展望。
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