📙 Prolific's Best Practice Guide
Phase 1: Questions to ask before creating a study
Phase 2: Things to keep in mind when designing a study
- How to phrase questions and items
- Special focus: Sensitive questions
- The order of your questions
- Tips for the visual design of your survey
- Failed attention checks
- Biases in research
- The Likert scale and when to use it
- Prolific IDs, data collection and security
- Writing the Study Description and Debriefing
- Getting consent
- Deciding on a reward
Phase 3: Piloting and launching your study
Phase 4: Analysing your data
Phase 5: Iterating the research cycle
Phase ∞: Metascience & the empirical cycle
Statistical and Methodological Concepts