Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge

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Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge. / Reyes-García, Victoria; Díaz Reviriego, Isabel; Duda, Romain et al.
In: Field Methods, Vol. 28, No. 4, 01.11.2016, p. 345-362.

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Reyes-García, V, Díaz Reviriego, I, Duda, R, Fernández-Llamazares, Á, Gallois, S, Guèze, M, Napitupulu, L & Pyhälä, A 2016, 'Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge', Field Methods, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 345-362. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X16629912

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Reyes-García, V., Díaz Reviriego, I., Duda, R., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Gallois, S., Guèze, M., Napitupulu, L., & Pyhälä, A. (2016). Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge. Field Methods, 28(4), 345-362. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X16629912

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Reyes-García V, Díaz Reviriego I, Duda R, Fernández-Llamazares Á, Gallois S, Guèze M et al. Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge. Field Methods. 2016 Nov 1;28(4):345-362. doi: 10.1177/1525822X16629912

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abstract = "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{\textquoteright} (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.",
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