Crowd Science - Demographic Analytics for Websites

You may be one of the few people specially selected to receive a message in my sidebar, inviting you to take a survey to help me understand more about my visitors. I recently signed up to the beta of Crowd Science, which I learned about through my Twitter friend, mashcrunch, who led me to an article on the new blogging tool. Crowd Science uses its own algorithm to decide which users to offer the survey to. It asks demographic questions, and delivers the stats (keeping the survey takers' information anonymous) to the website owner.

Unfortunately, I have no review of the application yet, since (as of the time of the post) no one of the ten users who have been offered the survey have accepted to take it. As with all voluntary surveys though, I have a feeling that stats will be skewed since it'll only show the demographics of the type of people who would be willing to answer a survey, and not of the full population. Even so though, it's an interesting and possibly useful analytics tool for websites.

If you would like to try it for yourself, sign-up and enter BETAFRIENDS as the invitation code.