Starting with the methods section of your academic paper can make the process easier—we're here to help you accurately cite research samples and highlight the types of samples you can gather from CloudResearch within your paper.
Oftentimes, researchers want to target their surveys toward particular demographics: e.g., people of a certain race, gender, or age. If they state the criteria they’re looking for in the survey title, they face the risk of people lying about their demographics in order to qualify for the study, particularly if the study offers high compensation. While most people tend to be honest, if the incentive and opportunity are there, they will sometimes succumb to temptation. That’s where CloudResearch qualifications fit in, or the alternative 2-step screener. But these methods aren’t foolproof, and researchers might want the peace of mind of knowing the participants they’ve recruited aren’t imposters.
Although the idea may be simple, writing effective screening questions is a lot more complicated. Screening questions need to be short and easy for respondents to answer. They should avoid binary response options but also should not include too many response options. You should order the response options in the right way, and the overall screener shouldn’t contain too many questions. Above all, you absolutely need to ensure you don’t lead people to guess which attributes you’re looking for. To balance all these objectives—and to demonstrate examples of good and bad survey screening questions—we wrote this blog. Let’s dig in.
People say summer is the time to go on vacation, relax, and maybe even read some books for fun. However, I decided to do a full-time internship at CloudResearch during the day, while continuing to work on my PhD research in the evenings and weekends. It’s been hard, but totally worth it! My experience so far has been very different from grad school, and it’s helping me make an informed decision about staying in academia vs. going into industry. There’s a lot I love about academia, and someday I’ll write a blog post about my reasons for wanting to pursue a tenure-track position. But for now, here are my top three reasons for liking industry
At CloudResearch, we’re all about innovation. From tackling the Bot Scare to exploring gender pay gaps to examining the ethics of MTurk, we know what it takes to keep up with best practices in the everchanging field of behavioral research. To further support the work of conducting high-quality, innovative research online, we are thrilled to announce two exciting new opportunities: our inaugural conference, and our CloudResearch Grant Award!
At the heart of good research methods are two concepts known as survey validity and reliability. Digging into these concepts can get a bit wonky. However, understanding validity and reliability is important for both the people who conduct and consume research. Thus, we lay out the details of both constructs in this blog.
