#riskyshift

[suiyoubis]

riskyshift — yureru

[mulkeenmurray]

The Wisdom Of Crowds

Following last week’s presentation and my review of the recommended online materials I decided to use the Wisdom of the Crowd to conduct a short survey to get feedback and gather more information for my project.

I used Survey 🐵 to ask Facebook friends and Twitter followers about their use of Charity shops and to find out if my app 💡 might appeal. It's supposed to be anonymous unless you chose to leave your contact details for follow up. But it being Facebook my lovely friends left little messages and encouraging comments .  Here is a brief over view of my findings.

34 people have responded so far. The demographics reflect my social network. 80 % are  female, All are over 25 years and more than 50% are over 60. 95% use charity shops at least once a year.  85% use high street outlets. They buy everything that charity shops sell but the biggest sellers were in order of preference 📚, CDs and DVDs, women's clothing and household goods. More than 80% want to save 💰 and/or support a good cause. 40% are motivated by environmental imperatives and a similar amount want to find vintage clothes or collectible items. No one was planning to resell goods on eBay for profit. Less than 10% thought that charity shops would save them time. Only 20% use apps or email reminders and 20% said they were not interested in using an app. 20% like the thrill of finding something unexpected. But   40 %  were “early adopters” and said that they were interested in using an app to alert them to a good deal or a preferred item at a charity shop. Another 10% say they would follow on if others were using it.  I found the results of this survey to be encouraging and I plan to follow up with some people who said they would be happy to have a more detailed conversation. I think it was useful to do this because a small amount of external validation  has helped me to decide to stick with this 💡. I will explore further other crowdsourcing tools to use because I recognise this this group is more likely to be skewed towards my views than a more random group, and some of them might have been giving me the feedback they thought I wanted to hear. #Wisdom of crowds#madness of crowds#riskyshift#groupthink