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djj

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What was the point?
« on: June 02, 2011, 10:31:29 pm »
What was the point in giving me this to classify:



when the original image was this:



???

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Re: What was the point?
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2011, 04:40:04 am »
Hi djj, it was to test whether having what looks like an AGN around affects your classification. Because a lot of real AGN do seem to affect people's classifications of the overall shape of the galaxy, so it's useful to calibrate. Hope that makes sense? :)