Date: September 8, 2021
Topic: Recruiting Research Participants Online Using Reddit
Speaker:
Raymond Luong
Ph.D. Student in the Experimental Psychology program at McGill University
Overview:
This 50-minute presentation introduces r/SampleSize, a community on the website Reddit that allows for online participant recruitment without compulsory or immediate payment. It will provide an overview of best practices for recruiting participants on r/SampleSize. It will also compare r/SampleSize to Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a widely used crowdsourcing platform for recruiting research participants.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this webinar you will be able to:
- Describe best practices for recruiting research participants on r/SampleSize
- List key advantages and disadvantages of r/SampleSize compared to MTurk and other participant pools
- Identify key limitations of r/SampleSize and MTurk