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How Non-Response Bias Can Affect Research Surveys
Pollsters have known for decades that people are increasingly unwilling to participate in polls and about the problems this can create. In 2016, for example, White voters without a college...
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Mechanical Turk Demographic Trends During the Year of COVID-19
Last month, people in the U.S. marked the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. For most of 2020, circumstances on the ground were changing faster than many forms of...
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How to Conduct an Online Pricing Survey
Imagine you’re on the beach with a friend. It’s hot and sunny. After a few hours you’re really thirsty, and just as you’re thinking ‘I could use a drink’ your...
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How Has COVID-19 Affected MTurk Worker Demographics?
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed nearly everything. An important change for social scientists is that most, if not all, human subjects research has moved online. Given the massive disruptions to...
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4 Strategies to Improve Participant Retention In Online Longitudinal Studies
Whenever researchers conduct a longitudinal study, one concern takes precedence over almost all others: retaining participants. This is especially true for many studies conducted in the era of COVID-19, as...
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Pay Justice in a Newly Developing Economy
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic initiated an unprecedented shift in the American workforce. In a matter of weeks a significant portion of the labor force shifted to working online, a...
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