Table 1 Comparison of counts between Penguin Watch (CS) and GS data for four cameras: DAMOa, HALFc, LOCKb and PETEc. ‘Threshold employed’ relates to the filtering threshold applied during analysis.

From: Time-lapse imagery and volunteer classifications from the Zooniverse Penguin Watch project

 

Threshold employed

 

Only adult classifications

All adult and chick classifications

 

>1

>2

>3

>4

>1

>2

>3

>4

DAMOa

n=300

   

n=300

   

Average difference

1.88

1.50

1.18

1.24

1.94

1.58

1.37

1.53

σ

2.15

1.78

1.56

1.40

2.22

1.86

1.69

1.61

Proportion of differences that are 0 or 1

0.56

0.67

0.75

0.69

0.56

0.64

0.69

0.62

HALFc

n=283

   

n=283

   

Average difference

1.28

0.99

0.88

0.99

1.45

1.27

1.34

1.55

σ

2.06

1.58

1.34

1.28

2.08

1.71

1.64

1.72

Proportion of differences that are 0 or 1

0.74

0.82

0.85

0.82

0.69

0.71

0.68

0.64

LOCKb

n=300

   

n=300

   

Average difference

1.41

1.25

1.17

1.19

1.40

1.24

1.18

1.29

σ

2.31

2.12

1.98

1.96

2.30

1.89

1.74

1.78

Proportion of differences that are 0 or 1

0.73

0.77

0.77

0.75

0.72

0.73

0.73

0.68

PETEc

n=300

   

n=300

   

Average difference

3.60

2.48

2.36

3.27

4.29

3.54

4.37

6.06

σ

3.50

2.99

2.69

2.86

4.51

4.07

4.41

5.20

Proportion of differences that are 0 or 1

0.28

0.46

0.46

0.30

0.25

0.37

0.33

0.20

  1. For example, a threshold of ‘>2’ means that at least three people must have marked an area before it is counted as a penguin. ‘Average difference’ is the mean average of all differences between the GS and Penguin Watch counts, measured in number of individuals. ‘Proportion of differences that are 0 or 1’ is the proportion of images for which the Penguin Watch count was either equal to the GS, or different by one individual (either higher or lower), respectively. The results for adults, and adults and chicks combined, are presented here. To be counted as an adult or a chick, probability_of_adult or probability_of_chick was >0.5 (see ‘Explanation of terms’).