On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:14:08AM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > >The goal-pair study will accumulate more questions than I can reasonably > >expect a participant to answer in one sitting. I have an idea for > >getting more ratings per participant. > > > >I'll ask for 30 minutes worth of ratings and then say, "You're done." > > Okay. But, I would recommend you do more "debriefing" than just > "you're done." See the wiki page called "Research" or somesuch which > is a child page of HowToIntakeAndBrief.
OK, I have to write something similar for the goal-pair study. > >After one week, I'll send an email saying, "There are more items to > >rate. Please visit http://..."; I'll do this every week until I run out > >of items or the participant doesn't respond to the email. > > > >Bill, would this be useful for your study too? Or is it worse to > >introduce another confound? > > Interesting idea. > > I am not research wise enough to know whether it will introduce another > confound. But, my intuition says it should be okay. I have implemented this for both of our studies. > What I am more concerned about is pissing off our participants. Sure, > I know it takes approximately 0.5 seconds to delete a piece of email I am > not interested in and I don't mind so much getting unwanted mail (luckily > the spam filters here at work are really good). But I think lotsa people > would get really pissed off if they got unsolicited email from a > study-bot. The email ends with: "If you are not interested then simply ignore this email. You will not receive another reminder." > Subjects be able to quit at any time. > > If they finish or do enough (e.g. 30 minutes) OR if they press the "I'm > tired and need to quit button." then they will be presented with a > debriefing page. One of the things the debriefing page will say is, > "We would like to present you will more items. Is it okay if we email > you once per week, with a little polite reminder to do some more items. > You will be able to unsubscribe from this reminder at any time (the email > will tell you how to do this.) > > [button: yes, it's okay to email me from time to time] > [botton: no, it's not okay to email me from time to time] > > ...if they click neither or no then do not pester them. If they click > yes, pester them via email reminders and include an unsubscribe url thing > in those nagging email messages. We could do that but what I have now is everybody is sent an email. To unsubscribed, the participant simple does not login to OHL.
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