{"title": "DeSocSci — \"cancel culture\" — what do you really think? 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Ask a question about controversial matter _(nuclear, GMO, abortion, cannabis, same sex marriage, etc...)_\n2. Then and repeat the same question but reveal the actual intention of the research\n\n> we are here to evaluate if people answer questions a certain way in order to appear more favourable (social desirability bias)\n\nTheory / hypothesis / assumption / something to verify: does the diclosing true intention of the question makes respondents answer it truthfully? Will the answer change?\n\nOr maybe the answer changed due to \"priming\"? Let's find out, let's ask \n\n## Option B\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/WDovRUQ.png)\n\n\n# Background\n\nOur adventure with DeSci originated a year ago during EthCC and FtC (Funding the Commons) in Paris. We attended a workshop organised by Nicholas Brigham Adams, PhD ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickadams72/)) and it was an eye-opening experience that got us familiar with the field. \n\nBunch of links from around that time:\n* Personal blog describing some potential experiments: [link](https://mirror.xyz/dearmoon.eth/rFtxMoQAnKUQ4I08JxSIsd3Y_mvfTUewTabRIBN70xA)\n* ETH Global Paris hackathon project in the theme of DeSci: [link](https://mirror.xyz/0x315f80C7cAaCBE7Fb1c14E65A634db89A33A9637/ICO_UBAxnKr3J9CF5FnNAJx8x_c7P6ff8Jc5O1DYIZg)\n* [Slides from that project](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-cBod5MnI-sfEBvyLtmNGMAZvAZRxD4cLkWBFBsIzPw/edit?usp=sharing), highlights below: \n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/qbI7fTe.png)\n\n\n# **cancel culture** 🤷‍♀️\n\n![]https://i.imgur.com/YYgcmBj.png)\n\nSource: [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9581035/Law-student-29-said-women-vaginas-faces-disciplinary-action-university.html) _(sensationalist title but you get an idea)_\n\nIt was so bad a new law had to be esbtalished: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2862\n\n> A Bill to make provision in relation to freedom of speech and academic freedom in higher education institutions and in students’ unions; and for connected purposes.\n\nPress release: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/university-freedom-of-speech-bill-becomes-law\n\n> We’re making history with the Freedom of Speech Act, ensuring that fear does not undermine the rights of students and academics to debate controversial ideas and securing the right to an open exchange of ideas in universities.\n\nRecently there were elections in the UK, new government: [Labour decision to pause freedom of speech law branded ‘chilling’](https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/freedom-of-speech-universities-labour-b2586470.html)\n\nI personally believe that if people were telling their true intentions, true preferences the world would be a better place. I personally share my preferences so that other can consider them in the evaluation process, and there is nothing selfish about it.\n\n**All these factors encourage us to revisit that hackathon project**\n\nWhat was innovative about it? These features are already implement, although \"hackathon quality\":\n* using WorldCoin to guarantee unique users\n* for non-WorldCoin users requiring to record a short video _(face and voice are also a good indication of uniqueness)_\n\n**Roadmap / plan / timeline of the new features**\n\n\n# Team\n\n\n# Potential impact\n\nMassive impact. To tell what is real. We can run many more experiments and opinion polling using this framework.\n\n**RELATED:** Trust in media (and government) at all time law\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/vcSJI66.png[/img])\nSource: https://www.axios.com/2022/07/08/news-republicans-democrats-trust-partisanship\n\n\n\n# Contact\n\n* Telegram chat: https://t.me/DeSocSci \n\n# Eligibility criteria\n\n\n1. The project should fall under the category of Decentralized Science. (https://ethereum.org/en/desci/)\n\nYES.\n\n2. The project should aim to build public infrastructure...\n\nYES. We are building public infrastructure allowing to uncover biases.\n\n3. The project should be able to clearly articulate its goals and objectives.\n\nWe really hope our goals and objectives are articulated clearly: addressing conscious and unconscious biases, specifically social desirability bias.\n\n4. The project must have a clear and well-defined problem statement, as well as a plan for addressing the problem.\n\nProblem: \"cancel culture\" and people being afraid to say what they really think.\n\nPlan: please refer to the main body of the grant where we describe features to be accomplished.\n\n5. The project must have a clear roadmap and timeline for implementation, with achievable goals.\n\nRoadmap. Timeline. Goals\n\n6. The project should be open-source and collaborative in nature.\n\nAbsolutely. We intend to onboard developers / scientists / researchers\n\n7. The project must be able to provide regular updates on its progress to the Gitcoin community.\n\nAbsolutely, we will keep you posted.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "PlanetaryCouncil", "projectTwitter": "PlanetCouncil"}