Social Computing Coursera Quiz Answers

All Weeks Social Computing Coursera Quiz Answers

Social Computing Coursera Quiz Answers

Week 3: Cumulative Quiz

Q1. What asymmetry inhibited the adoption of shared calendars?

The power asymmetry between managers and workers.
The asymmetry between who does the work and who gets the benefit.
The asymmetry between desktop screens and mobile screens
The asymmetry of upload and download bandwidth.

Q2. What is another example of this asymmetry?

What do you think?

Your answer cannot be more than 10000 characters.

Q3. The job-seeking site LinkedIn, which enables people to post and view work profiles, primarily fits in which quadrant?

Different time, different place
Different time, same place
Same time, different place
Same time, same place

Q4. A handheld Walkie-Talkie enables two or more people to communicate directly over radio frequencies. Which quadrant does this primarily fit in?

Same time, same place
Same time, different place
Different time, same place
Different time, different place

Q5. With Geocaching teams of participants find hidden objects and solve puzzles. Which quadrant does this primarily fit in?

Same time, same place
Same time, different place
Different time, same place
Different time, different place

Q6. How many jellybeans are in the jar?

What do you think?

Your answer cannot be more than 10000 characters.

Q7. Assume your guess is wrong because it’s based on a mistaken assumption. Make a second guess that revises that assumption. Now, how many jellybeans are in the jar?

What do you think?

Your answer cannot be more than 10000 characters.

Q8. What is this iterative strategy an example of?

The crowd within
An “easter egg hunt”
Recursive guessing
Parallel protoyping

Q9. When “porting” physical collaboration to online, what is generally more important?

Replicating the function of collaboration.
Replicating the form of collaboration.

Q10. Which of the following is the best example of Social Proof online?

Retweeting a Twitter post that you like.
“Poking” a friend of Facebook you haven’t spoken to in a while.
Copying the URL from a Twitter post that you like and tweeting it yourself.
The browser showing you the lock icon in the address bar when you visit a secure site.

Q11. If a website tells you, “People who liked this book also liked _“, and uses algorithmically generated recommendations based on user behavior, this is an example of:

A/B testing
Harry Potter’s Hegemony
Collaborative Filtering
Responsive Design
Wizard of Oz

Q12. You call a friend’s phone; she doesn’t answer. Your friend later apologizes for missing your call explaining that she didn’t hear her phone in her bag. In fact, she saw your call, but didn’t feel like talking. Imagine a new video phone that immediately shows the context of the person you call. It would remove the ability for your friend to offer a cover story. What principle would be affected?

Plausible deniability
The multi-modality hypothesis
The gulf of execution
The midas touch problem

Q13. Your team has software developers in two cities: San Diego and Atlanta. You’re about to embark on a new software project. Which two of the following strategies would be most likely to increase software quality?

End the project by having everybody gather for a celebration.
Have the two sites work on mostly separable modules.
Begin the project by having everybody gather in the same location for a kick-off meeting.
As long as everybody has up-to-date UML diagrams, the coupling can be whatever is needed.