Researchers find malicious behavior the norm in crowdsourcing contests
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A small team of researchers with members from facilities in the U.K., Australia, and Saudi Arabia has found that when it comes to crowdsourcing contests, malicious behavior is the norm. In their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the researchers describe how they applied game theory to data collected from crowdsourced contests and what their analysis revealed.