[CogSci] Major Research Program to Improve Reasoning -- Now Recruiting Participants

[Rhodes, Rebecca E.]

Members of the Cognitive Science community may be interested to know that IARPA (the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) is now recruiting thousands of people to test the analytic methods developed for its CREATE (Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation, Thinking and Evaluation) program. CREATE is a multi-million-dollar, multi-year R&D effort to improve the core process of intelligence analysis: making well-reasoned inferences from incomplete information. If effective, CREATE analytic tools could greatly assist many other disciplines that depend on good reasoning, including law, medicine, and public policy. We welcome Cognitive Science members as participants in this effort and also encourage them to forward this message to their students, colleagues and others who might be interested in participating in this project.

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The Create Better Reasoning Study seeks people who like to:
-Develop logical, evidence-driven solutions to complex problems
-Explain (and debate!) their reasoning clearly and convincingly
-Explore new tools and techniques to solve problems

Participants will spend 2-3 hours/week learning and using software designed to help people and teams analyze evidence and develop rational solutions to challenging problems. Your effort will help us evaluate and shape the intelligence tools of the future.

You can join the study if you:
-Are 18 or older
-Have at least some college education
-Read and write English fluently
-Have reliable internet access and will accept cookies from the study website

For more information or to join the CREATE Study, go to: Join.CreateBetterReasoning.com<http://join.createbetterreasoning.com/>.

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