Scammers threaten quality of research survey data – The Transmitter (Shaena Montanari | August 2023)
Do you remember the days when the most formidable recruitment challenge for human researchers was recruiting enough participants to give you useful and hopefully compelling evidence for your theory? It seems those days are just happy memories, especially if you are offering an incentive to your participants. This item, published in The Transmitter, shares the dismayed reaction of a researcher who realises that her participant pool contains more fraudulent participants than real participants. Such a realisation will undermine your confidence in your data and invalidate the information shared by your real participants. It underlines the importance of researchers having mechanisms to protect the integrity of their data collection.