Multiple choice · Test 6

Science for everyone

You don’t need a laboratory or a university degree to 0make a contribution to science. Every year, millions of ordinary people 1 part in projects that ask them to count birds, classify distant galaxies or record the first flowers of spring.

This kind of research, known as citizen science, is not a new idea. Charles Darwin himself 2 heavily on observations sent to him by amateur naturalists. But the internet has 3 the scale of what is possible: volunteers can now upload photographs or data from their phones in a 4 of seconds.

Scientists benefit enormously. A single researcher could never hope to 5 a country’s entire coastline or examine millions of images, but thousands of volunteers working together can. The quality of the data is sometimes called into 6, yet studies suggest that, given clear instructions, volunteers are often just as accurate as professionals.

Participants, for their part, often say that the experience has 7 their eyes to the natural world around them, and many 8 up spending far more time outdoors than they did before.

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