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What is a major advantage of increasing the involvement of the general public in the scientific process?

Involving the general public in data gathering makes rare phenomena easier to study.


For example, sightings of rare animals or meteors, can be more easily collected by increasing the number of observers, as long as the data can be kept reliable.

Proponents of “Science 2.0” argue that:

Science currently limits its own productivity by being too slow to adopt web-based technologies for information sharing.


There are advantages argued for the speed of information sharing that the 'Science 2.0' methods can offer.

Define: TACIT KNOWLEDGE

Tacit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it.