Participants needed for a study of online social networking among people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder

Is there a problem with it, how many times did it ask the same $1000 question!

I’ve taken surveys with similar incentives before that put the request for contact information as an optional question at the end.

It helps in two ways - first, the participant has already taken the survey and so has had a chance to reasonably determine their comfort level with your organization and the data you’re collecting.

Second, it’s not mandatory, and so people who don’t consider the benefit of a possible gift card to be worth the risk of identifying themselves can still participate. I’m usually happy to take surveys but almost never willing to share personally identifying information.

Assuming that you have the best of intentions, it must be frustrating to hear our objections. But in the general public, you’re going to find a natural level of wariness about revealing personal information over the internet. Among people with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, that wariness will be much higher.

Good luck! I hope you get the responses you need!

No, it’s not a problem. It might seem like it’s the same question, but there’s small variations each time they’re presented. I’m trying to measure delay discounting and in order to have a stable estimate of a person’s discounting rate, there has to be a lot of questions.

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OK, thanks for the advice!

I’d call it immediately annoying not delayed discounting

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Fair enough. Thanks for sticking through it, I really appreciate it!

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