Belgium's human rights league has complained to the region's public prosecutor: 'There might also be a case of random kidnapping to answer, in the sense that the pygmies don't seem free to come and go as they please.' Louis Raets, the man behind the exhibition, is perplexed at the negative publicity and insists he has done nothing wrong.
I mean, I knew enough to say, "Hey, this is what's happening," but she started to ask more specific questions, so I went over to the computer on this random website to answer them.
The company, called Knowledge Networks, was trying to address the single greatest problem in polling -- getting a random sample of Americans to answer questions -- by paying a random sample of Americans for their time.
And if you don't have a particularly strong social media following, the site can serve up some random questions for you to answer.
So instead, here are some random Dawkins followers on Twitter to answer on his behalf: @RichardDawkins heteronormative, how dare you! @RichardDawkins Smut is fine but at this time of the morning?
Asked why he would not comply with the legal processes of a country with a respected system of jurisprudence, he described Sweden as "a bit more of a banana republic" than its reputation suggested, and said his WikiLeaks work was too important to answer to "random prosecutors around the world who simply want to have a chat".
Since the results from the paid crowd only achieved an accuracy of 27.05 %, we further examined the results and observed that 19.86 % of the responses were spam answers or random answers that did not attempt to answer what was asked.
I haven't had a chance to give Kngine a thorough test, but when I tried the app out, it was able to answer all of my random questions accurately.
After downloading the app, users sign in through Facebook, which is important as this adds at least an initial defense against junk and starts to address the trust issue (why should I listen to you, random person answering my question? Oh, well at least I can see who you are on Facebook, you're a teacher at the university down the road), which is important.
He has played down the rigor of his education, saying that he took his standardized test scores in high school by giving random answers to a rap beat in his head ("A to B, C to D"), and proclaiming that he would receive his degree in "crayon biology".
