Kinsey Reporter: Citizen Science for Sex Research
Clayton A Davis, Julia Heiman, Erick Janssen, Stephanie Sanders,, Justin Garcia, Filippo Menczer
TL;DR
Kinsey Reporter is a mobile app that collects and visualizes anonymous sex-related data from users worldwide, enabling citizen science research while preserving privacy.
Contribution
The paper introduces a novel citizen science platform for sex research that ensures contributor anonymity and provides tools for data sharing and analysis.
Findings
Preliminary data analyses reveal interesting patterns in sex-related reports.
The platform successfully preserves user anonymity while enabling data collection.
Potential research questions are identified based on initial data insights.
Abstract
Kinsey Reporter is a global mobile app to share, explore, and visualize anonymous data about sex. Reports are submitted via smartphone, then visualized on a website or downloaded for offline analysis. In this paper we present the major features of the Kinsey Reporter citizen science platform designed to preserve the anonymity of its contributors, and preliminary data analyses that suggest questions for future research.
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Taxonomy
TopicsPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse