Solvers on crowdsourcing contest platforms usually manage multiple tasks to improve their chances of winning. Their participation behavior -as reflected by their submission patterns across tasks and intensity of multitasking -tends to be quite diverse. This study uses data from a popular crowdsourcing platform to investigate how a solver's participation behavior affects her performance. We find that both types of behavior impact performance, but they do so quite differently, with solver ability

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... also playing a role in the nature and extent of the impact.