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Why is it called citizen science?
by triyambakam 4y ago
Why is it called citizen science?
- lupire 4y agoCitizen science is when someone is doing science but not being paid by a science business, or not being a trained PhD Patreon/YouTubers straddle the boundary.
- 0des 4y agoHe's not trained?
- wardedVibe 4y agoNot in a school. from the article > In 2006, Santore enrolled in a few classes at a community college in San Francisco. He left shortly after. On a whim that same year, he was hired on by the Union Pacific railroad, working as a brakeman, and later, an engineer. For the next 13 years, Santore studied the geology of railroad cuts as the trains traveled through them and stocked his railroad bag with botany research papers from the website Sci-Hub.
- 0des 4y agoIt was a rhetorical question. Not having the paper is not the same as being not trained.
- SantalBlush 4y agoIt's a good thing they said "trained PhD" then.
- triyambakam 4y agoI get that, but why "citizen"? Being a trained PhD or being employed to do science by a company doesn't make one not a citizen