Citizen Science Project
Introduction Citizen Science is a form of science that allows all human beings to participate in scientific discovery. It is a method that calls out nonscientists to participate and give data, research, information and their own point of view on a variety of scientific research projects available to the public. The research given by ordinary citizens or participants is extremely beneficial. I participated in a Citizen Science project called “ Center for Canine Behavior Studies”. This project is a non-profit organization collecting data on the personalities of all dog types in order to create a system of paring human personalities with dog personalities to find better-suited homes for the dogs and for both the dogs and humans to have a better
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Mostly this survey asks for information on behavioral patterns and asks questions in order to obtain evidence on the behavior of all species of dogs in order to better match these dogs with owners. This survey hopes to significantly reduce the number of stray dogs in the United States, which will save resources, time and energy. When observing a dog the study asks you to take note of aggression, destructiveness, energy levels, attention seeking, fears of all kinds, caution given and more. Essentially the personality, and behavior of a dog. There is no way for the scientists to check if this data is biased or fraud but they are going on the hopes and having faith in humanity that the information is true. The research given is not anonymous because the owner is required to register their dog in order to participate. Owners could lie and change the behavior of a dog to make it seem like they are better than what they are but no one except the researchers will see this data so it is unlikely that incident would occur. The organization funding this project would of course have a part in setting up the study and setting certain goals that the study needs to fulfill. Research shows that “ the dog’s personality clearly exerts a significant impact on relationship satisfaction while the personality of the human contributes little. In the social psychology literature, self personality generally contributes more to explaining relationship satisfaction than does partner personality, so this finding is especially intriguing” (Cavanaugh, 2008). Through the data and research that has been proven already it is more important to have data on the behavior of dogs rather than the individual behavior
Mostly this survey asks for information on behavioral patterns and asks questions in order to obtain evidence on the behavior of all species of dogs in order to better match these dogs with owners. This survey hopes to significantly reduce the number of stray dogs in the United States, which will save resources, time and energy. When observing a dog the study asks you to take note of aggression, destructiveness, energy levels, attention seeking, fears of all kinds, caution given and more. Essentially the personality, and behavior of a dog. There is no way for the scientists to check if this data is biased or fraud but they are going on the hopes and having faith in humanity that the information is true. The research given is not anonymous because the owner is required to register their dog in order to participate. Owners could lie and change the behavior of a dog to make it seem like they are better than what they are but no one except the researchers will see this data so it is unlikely that incident would occur. The organization funding this project would of course have a part in setting up the study and setting certain goals that the study needs to fulfill. Research shows that “ the dog’s personality clearly exerts a significant impact on relationship satisfaction while the personality of the human contributes little. In the social psychology literature, self personality generally contributes more to explaining relationship satisfaction than does partner personality, so this finding is especially intriguing” (Cavanaugh, 2008). Through the data and research that has been proven already it is more important to have data on the behavior of dogs rather than the individual behavior