The Department of Defense, through the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), is seeking public comments on a new information collection proposal. This proposal involves evaluating a game designed to assess systems thinking abilities, which are important for jobs in fields like cybersecurity and engineering. Participants, who are freelance workers from Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform, will play the game, answer evaluation questions, and provide demographic information. Feedback will help refine the game's usability and clarity, and findings will be summarized in a technical report. Public comments on this proposal are open until March 29, 2021.
Simple Explanation
The U.S. Army wants to see if a new game can help them understand how people think about systems, which is useful for jobs like fixing cyber problems and building things. They are asking people to play the game and say what they think, but there are questions about how much it will cost, why they only picked certain players, and how they will keep everyone’s information safe.