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How to Maintain Data Quality When You Can’t See Your Participants
Online data collection makes recruiting study participants faster and easier, but at what cost? Psychological scientist Jennifer Rodd of University College London outlines the steps researchers should take to manage the uncertainty inherent in remote experimentation.
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Studying People in Their Local Environments
An RV-style mobile lab is helping Cornell University researchers, including psychological scientist Neil Lewis, Jr., study hard-to-reach populations in their home settings.
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March Methodology Madness
Borrowing from the “March Madness” college basketball tournament in the United States, the Observer presents our annual look at methodology innovations and research practices.
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NAS Workshop Proceedings on Statistical Reproducibility of Federal Statistics
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released proceedings of a workshop on the topic of practices to increase the transparency of federal data.
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Student Notebook: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Suggestions for Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
While MTurk can be beneficial for gathering a diverse sample in an abbreviated length of time, certain drawbacks should be considered when using this crowdsourcing service.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring how we track other people’s knowledge states, individual differences in face recognition, and self-other agreement in personality reports.