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What can you tell us about the iOS project at 250K?

I have some follow-up questions to this.

1) Realizing that it may be different for each project, what are the numbers? How many people usually look at each image, and how many before the data is assumed to be a "real" find?

2) I imagine that, in some cases, the most interesting data is actually in the outliers... is this ever true? I guess I'm thinking specifically of the astronomical projects, for example the lens one. Do the scientists typically go through and "verify" images that have been "flagged" by only one or two people? And if so, are those ever useful, or typically not?

3) And tangentially, how helpful are the "discussions" that get started for the images? What's the signal to noise ratio on the individual image comments?

Thanks for all that you do! I have dreams of using my game development skills for "real" science, but it's hard to know where to start.

I love this idea, and I would even more love to see a large open source game project. There are some nice examples of games that are open source (or at least "released source"), but very few that I know of that are still in development.