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5/8/15
The History Category – The sixth in a series of posts analyzing Trivia Crack
History is our fifth Trivia Crack category to analyze, and the sixth blog in our series. Let’s take a look at scoring patterns in this tough category. We gathered and analyzed the scores of over 400 random Trivia Crack players by participating in both one and one and group challenges. Here’s the distribution of scores […]
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5/7/15
The Entertainment Category – The fifth in a series of posts analyzing Trivia Crack
In our series of analyzing knowledge about knowledge, we’ve previously talked about scoring patterns in the Science, Sports, and Geography categories of Trivia Crack, as well as the methodology of collecting our data. Today we’ll move on to Part 5 of our series, where we examine Entertainment scores. We gathered and analyzed the scores of […]
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5/6/15
Measuring Trivia Crack Scores – The fourth in a series of posts analyzing Trivia Crack
If you have been following our series of Trivia Crack scoring analyses, you may be wondering how we developed our estimates. It’s actually an interesting process, and it plays into our strengths here at Corona Insights, of measuring a population when we can only gather data for a sample. So let’s take a quick break […]
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5/1/15
The Geography Category – The third in a series of posts analyzing Trivia Crack
A Study of Trivia Crack Scoring In our series of analyzing knowledge about knowledge, we’ve previously talked about scoring patterns in the Science and Sports categories of Trivia Crack. Today we’ll move on to Part 3, where we examine my personal favorite, Geography. We gathered and analyzed the scores of over 400 random Trivia Crack […]
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4/28/15
The Sports Category – The second in a series of posts analyzing Trivia Crack
A Study of Trivia Crack Scoring In our series of analyzing knowledge about knowledge, we first talked about scoring patterns in the Science category of Trivia Crack. Today we’ll move on to Part 2, where we examine the exciting world of sports trivia. We gathered and analyzed the scores of over 400 random Trivia Crack […]
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4/27/15
Knowledge About Knowledge – Trivia Crack Evaluation Measures
A Study of Trivia Crack Scoring The Science Category – The first in a series of posts analyzing Trivia Crack If you’ve been online in America over the past few months, you’ve probably heard of the Trivia Crack app. With estimates ranging into the tens of millions of players, a lot of people enjoy testing […]
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3/13/15
Is tomorrow the first real Pi day?
Happy Pi Day! As you have undoubtedly noticed thanks to pictures and references to the culinary type of pie in your social media streams, tomorrow is March 14, or 3.14 the (rounded) mathematical constant representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. But wait, there’s more! Not only is tomorrow 3.14, it’s 3.14.15, […]
By David KennedyRead More
12/18/14
The Corona-Nerd Gift Guide
Time is ticking on holiday gift buying. Don’t panic though as Corona has you covered, at least for the nerds in your life. Here are 10 gift ideas for your nerds, or at least those with an offbeat sense of humor. 1. The complete National Geographic Atlas set. Who doesn’t like a high quality map? […]
By David KennedyRead More
11/24/14
The Power of Ranking
One of the fun tools of our trade is index development. It’s a way to rank order things on a single dimension that takes into account a number of relevant variables. Let’s say you want to rank states with respect to their animal welfare conditions, or rank job candidates with regard to their experience and […]
By Beth MulliganRead More
11/7/14
Welcome, Mollie!
We are delighted to welcome Mollie Boettcher as the newest member of the Corona Insights team! As our newest Associate, Mollie will specialize in qualitative research practices including, but certainly not limited to: recruiting research participants, conducting focus groups and interviews, then analyzing and interpreting qualitative data for clients seeking data-driven guidance. Mollie attended the […]
By Sarah SvitakRead More