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Advertising your Experiment & Paying your Participants[TOP]
If you are active, or you know someone who is active in any kind of online forum, chat channel, or blog community, this is an excellent way to recruit subjects for your studies. Especially, if you're interested in subjects that don't work on language. Be aware that most online communities will be offended or suspicious if you just post in their forum without ever having participated in any of their discussions. Be polite, get to know the people first. Then you can post. Of course, if you have a friend who is already respected by the people in the forum you may take advantage of that (but don't do it to frequently ;-). Another good or probably the most efficient way of recruiting participants are email lists that you build up over the course of your career (e.g. using software like Doug Rohde's Subjector), or lists of friends, people in your dorm, etc. I think it is fair to say that the more willing people are to help you (a priori, even without any payment) the more attention they will commit to your experiment and the less noisy your data will be. There are a couple of Lists or websites that recruit participants for experiments. When you use those as a venue to get participants, be aware what kind of population you are attracting for your experiment.
Before you post your experiment anywhere, be sure that you have IRB approval for your study. Read this section on Ethical concerns and IRB approval. [TOP]
PaymentOnline experiments can make payment of subjects a little bit more complicated, but not really. Check with your school what you need to get reimbursed for subject payment. They may require social security numbers from the participants or even signatures, but usually there is some way around that. Below I list some convenient ways to pay/reward participants that do not require you to send out cash or checks via snail mail.
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