The Tragedy of Survey Methodology

Judd Antin is a social psychologist and research scientist in the Internet Experiences group at Yahoo! Research. Judd’s areas of expertise include incentives and motivation for online collaboration, "gamification" and game mechanics, online communities, collective action and social dilemmas, as well as trust, reliability, and credibility. His research interests center on user-generated content, social media, the wisdom of crowds, distributed work, and all other forms of online collaboration. Working with laboratory and field experiments, surveys, and qualitative methods, Judd strives for a holistic understanding of participation and collaboration and translating that understanding into innovation for Yahoo! products.

Judd holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in Applied Anthropology from the University of Maryland – College Park, a Ph.D. in Information Management & Systems from the School of Information at UC Berkeley, and a Grand Diploma in Culinary Arts from the French Culinary Institute in New York City.