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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by saagarjha on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:49AM (#19103924)
> Participating in experimental studies is quite fun (pro tip: go for the fMRI and EEG studies ASAP! ;-) ), but I didn't appreciate how I was forced to do it. I didn't learn too much from those experiments and I felt used. It furthermore is a way to be lazy regarding participant recruitment. I'm pretty sure that some startup could disrupt this particular problem.

I don't see much ability to innovate here other than Mechanical Turking out the work to people you pay to participate, but if you come up with something interesting I'd love to hear it…

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by dagw on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:56AM (#19103955)
other than Mechanical Turking out the work to people you pay to participate

You'd be surprised how common that is.

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by kaybe on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:09AM (#19105284)
It's actually a decent source of money as a student. Go lie in the fMRT for an hour or two (I just sleep if there's nothing to do) and they will wire you ~10€/hour or more.
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