Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge
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In: Field Methods, Vol. 28, No. 4, 01.11.2016, p. 345-362.
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T1 - Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - Díaz Reviriego, Isabel
AU - Duda, Romain
AU - Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro
AU - Gallois, Sandrine
AU - Guèze, Maximilien
AU - Napitupulu, Lucentezza
AU - Pyhälä, Aili
N1 - The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement number FP7-261971-LEK to Reyes-García.
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - We assess the consistency of measures of individual local ecological knowledge obtained through peer evaluation against three standard measures: identification tasks, structured questionnaires, and self-reported skills questionnaires. We collected ethnographic information among the Baka (Congo), the Punan (Borneo), and the Tsimane’ (Amazon) to design site-specific but comparable tasks to measure medicinal plant and hunting knowledge. Scores derived from peer ratings correlate with scores of identification tasks and self-reported skills questionnaires. The higher the number of people rating a subject, the larger the association. Associations were larger for the full sample than for subsamples with high and low rating scores. Peer evaluation can provide a more affordable method in terms of difficulty, time, and budget to study intracultural variation of knowledge, provided that researchers (1) do not aim to describe local knowledge; (2) select culturally recognized domains of knowledge; and (3) use a large and diverse (age, sex, and kinship) group of evaluators.
AB - We assess the consistency of measures of individual local ecological knowledge obtained through peer evaluation against three standard measures: identification tasks, structured questionnaires, and self-reported skills questionnaires. We collected ethnographic information among the Baka (Congo), the Punan (Borneo), and the Tsimane’ (Amazon) to design site-specific but comparable tasks to measure medicinal plant and hunting knowledge. Scores derived from peer ratings correlate with scores of identification tasks and self-reported skills questionnaires. The higher the number of people rating a subject, the larger the association. Associations were larger for the full sample than for subsamples with high and low rating scores. Peer evaluation can provide a more affordable method in terms of difficulty, time, and budget to study intracultural variation of knowledge, provided that researchers (1) do not aim to describe local knowledge; (2) select culturally recognized domains of knowledge; and (3) use a large and diverse (age, sex, and kinship) group of evaluators.
KW - Ecosystems Research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84990180127&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1525822X16629912
DO - 10.1177/1525822X16629912
M3 - Scientific review articles
AN - SCOPUS:84990180127
VL - 28
SP - 345
EP - 362
JO - Field Methods
JF - Field Methods
SN - 1525-822X
IS - 4
ER -