Psychologists have spent a lot of time studying how parenting affects children. Attachment theory, for example, may be one of the widest studied topics in all of psychology. But despite a longstanding focus on parenting and children, relatively little time has been spent thinking about how parenthood affects parents themselves. This is in many ways surprising.
CloudResearch and InnovateMR jointly announce a strategic partnership to improve data quality, addressing the most pressing challenge facing the online survey industry.
Several years ago, we introduced the option for researchers to create a dynamic completion code when setting up MTurk Toolkit studies. While this system has worked well in the past, we are discontinuing its use over concerns about security and utility.
CloudResearch lives and breaths data quality. Cheskie Rosenzweig discusses the importance of data quality and how the market research industry could do more to ensure quality results.
Within the behavioral sciences, the tools that researchers rely on have been rapidly refashioned in the last 10 to 20 years. Advancements in technology and increased access to high speed internet have given researchers more tools for reaching more diverse groups of people in ways that are faster, cheaper, and less burdensome than ever before. The result has been a research revolution.
By the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had gripped the globe. Illness spread, lockdowns ensued, and both news outlets and medical journals documented the fear, anxiety, and subsequent stress everyone faced to one degree or another... I was spending more time online—and on social media, in particular—when I started noticing people making memes specifically about pandemic experiences.
