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Prolific's Best Practice Guide
Prolific's Best Practice Guide
Our guide on how to do great research online (and offline!)
Phase 1: Questions to ask before creating a study
What research question do I want to answer? And why?
Am I doing exploratory or confirmatory research? Why does it matter?
What is my target population?
What type of data do I need? Quantitative or Qualitative?
How large should my sample be?
Preregistering your Research
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
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Phase 3: Piloting and launching your study
“What’s that noise?” — Of systematic and random errors, or: Why pilot testing is important
When to pilot test your study
Approving Submissions and Rejecting Participants
Phase 4: Analysing your data
Two common statistical frameworks: Null Hypothesis Significance Testing and Bayesian Statistics
Pro-Tip: Point and Range Estimations – or: How to make your theory more interesting and useful
Phase 5: Iterating the research cycle
Aim for converging evidence & theory building
Phase ∞: Metascience & the empirical cycle
Researcher degrees of freedom
A manifesto for reproducible science (by Munafò et al., 2017)
Statistical and Methodological Concepts
What kind of sampling methods are there?
What are the advantages and limitations of an online sample?
Statistical Power
