Bob Lederer RBDR

Microsoft’s unorthodox polling. Reaching attentive, receptive audiences (RBDR 10.1.2014)

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1) Microsoft Research launched the Microsoft Prediction Lab, a polling and prediction unit that relies heavily on input from people who have a stake in the outcome because they have bets riding on it. Check out these links:

http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-research-launches-new-website-polling-and-predictions

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2688662/microsoft-wants-you-to-help-predict-the-future.html

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Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

OKCupid also admits user experiments; 2 Critical Emerging MR Trends (RBDR 7/31/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) In the wake of Facebook’s revelation that it conducted an emotional contagion study of almost 700,000 of its users, OKCupid confesses to experiments of its own on users of the free matchmaking service. (Here is the link to the Microsoft Research study into the Facebook user experiment: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3033369/why-did-we-care-about-the-facebook-contagion-study-or-did-we-even-care-at-all)

2) Marketresearch.com’s Managing Editor Ashlan Bonnell comments for RBDR on 3 important, emerging market research trends, whose details you may not understand.