DEAREST READERS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM THE FIELD OF SCIENCE NETWORK. FIND US AT OUR NEW BLOGGING HOME AT MEDIUM . THANK YOU!
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2016/07/we-moved.html
Earlier this month, we presented the results of the pilot phase of VerbCorner -- our citizen science project probing the nature of linguistic structure -- at a scientific conference (the Workshop...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2016/03/citizen-science-works.html
It is exciting times at GamesWithWords.org as we settle into our new digs at Boston College. The brick-and-mortar lab now has a name: the Language Learning Laboratory @ Boston College (L3@BC). As...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2016/02/gameswithwords-is-hiring.html
Not enough published studies replicate . There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the most difficult to address is statistical power . WHY IS LOW POWER A PROBLEM? Suppose you ...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2015/06/unrealistic-scientific-optimism.html
In case you wanted to know more about our VerbCorner project. Many thanks to the two undergraduates who helped make this video.
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2015/06/verbcorner-video.html
It's been a very busy time at GamesWithWords. I'm pleased to announce that we'll be moving to Boston College in January. The impending move, combined with a large number of papers to write, has k...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2015/06/back-online.html
A number of non-native English speakers get "Singaporean" as the top guess for their native language. You can actually see that by playing around in our dialect navigator . Here's screenshot of a...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/06/magic-singlish.html
I've updated the interactive visualization of the relationships between the Englishes of the world to include a couple dozen additional native languages. Check it out .
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/06/updated-results-on-relationship-between.html
A number of forums have picked up the WhichEnglish quiz, and have produced some really intelligent and insightful conversation. I recommend in particular this conversation on metafilter . There i...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/06/forums-find-gameswithwords.html
Around 4am EST on May 28, we started getting *a lot* of traffic to the website. This very quickly overloaded the server , resulting in the website running very slowly. We did some optimization. T...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/06/handling-viral-traffic.html
I've gotten a number of questions about the science behind our WhichEnglish quiz. Actually, I had intended to post a more detailed discussion days ago, but I got distracted by other matters . ...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/06/which-english-science-part-1.html
GamesWithWords.org will be experiencing periodic outages as we upgrade* the server. The incredible response we've had for WhichEnglish has completely overwhelmed the server. After bringing it b...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/05/good-problems-to-have.html
I have updated the dialect chart based on the results for the first few days. Since the new version shows up automatically in the frame in the previous post , I haven't added it in here. And you...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/05/findings-which-english-updated-dialect.html
It's widely observed that not everybody speaks English the same way. Depending on where you grew up, you might say y'all, you guys, or just you . You might pronounce grocery as if it were "groshe...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/05/the-english-grammars-of-world.html
I just finished a radio interview about birth order. Apparently not very much research goes into booking guests for radio & TV shows. Lately, I've been getting at least one interview request ...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/02/doing-your-homework.html
SciStarter would like to know more about your experiences with Citizen Science. They are running a survey (here ) in preparation for a workshop at the Citizen CyberScience Summit in London next m...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/01/calling-all-citizen-scientists.html
For the last couple years, most articles about Citizen Science -- in which amateurs contribute to scientific projects -- have been hagiography. These articles were nearly exclusively Ra! Ra!,...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/01/more-citizens-more-science.html
Unique visitors at GamesWithWords.org were up 76% in 2013 over the previous year. That's after several years of fairly steady traffic. Meanwhile, two journal papers and a conference paper ...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/01/a-great-year-for-gameswithwordsorg.html
Language is a device for moving a thought from one person's head into another's. This means to have any real understanding of language, we also need to understand thought. This is what makes wo...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/results-round-1-crowdsourcing-structure.html
A nice, extended article on recent projects, covering a wide range -- including GamesWithWords.org. Check it out .
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/citizen-science-in-harvard-magazine.html
Today's issue of Science carries the most meta sting operation I have ever seen. John Bohannon reports a study of open access journals, showing lax peer review standards. He sent 304 fake artic...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2013/10/science-mag-studies-science-forgets-to.html
I have never been good at coming up with titles for articles. When writing for newspapers or magazines, I usually leave it up to the editor. There is some danger that comes with this, however. ...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2013/09/titling.html
Over the last week, ScientificAmerican.com has published two articles by me. The most recent, "Citizen Scientists decode meaning, memory and laughter ," discusses how citizen science projects -- ...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2013/09/gameswithwords-on-scientific-american.html
One week only: If you did not do our Language and Memory task when it was running earlier this year, now is your chance. We just re-launched it to collect some additional data. I expect we'll ...
http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2013/09/language-and-memory-redux.html
У нас новый русский эксперимент . Большинство психолингвистов занимаются английским. Мы хотим узнать боль...
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