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> 2,550 American adults were recruited on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk > participants were asked to imagine having a given amount of discretionary time every day
by modeless 5y ago
> 2,550 American adults were recruited on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
> participants were asked to imagine having a given amount of discretionary time every day
Seriously? I trust this about as much as I trust a twitter poll.
- kapp_in_life 5y agoYeah, whats next. Imagining how your weight would change on a diet to measure that diets effectiveness?
- AussieWog93 5y agoIn all seriousness, the majority of Brain-Computer Interface trials involve asking subjects (usually able-bodied in the initial stages) to imagine moving their limbs.
- robbedpeter 5y agoMouth noises or button mashing are an insufficient proxy for ground truth
- jdavis703 5y agoThis seems like a reasonable first step before creating prototypes and more advanced studies. What am I missing?
- AussieWog93 5y agoThe fact that we're still doing it 30 years later.
- shkkmo 5y agoThere is a neuroscientific basis for that. We have well established research showing how imagining movements activates (almost) the same parts of the brain as making those movements. This is entirely different from asking people to imagine how they would react to a scenario. There is a pretty wide body of research documenting how poorly we tend to be at estimating such reactions.
- AussieWog93 5y ago>We have well established research showing how imagining movements activates (almost) the same parts of the brain as making those movements. In some people, some of the time, with no way of knowing beforehand if it's the system failing or the patient.
- arc-in-space 5y agoI thought there's no way that's right, but no, that really was their method behind one of their studies. What in the world?
- tmpz22 5y agoMTurk is a laughable source of input and a lot of academics rely on it for their papers
- Talanes 5y agoEspecially when if you wanted to try and survey people who've actually experienced a sudden upswing in free time, now is the time to do it. I wouldn't have to imagine my answer because I experienced it over the summer of 2020.
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- stingraycharles 5y agoMy experience with Mturk is that participants just randomly click anything, so that they can complete the task as quickly as possible. Almost none of them care about getting it right.