by Jo Evershed | Sep 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Online Research
Some researchers have resisted the move to online research over the last few years, but the COVID crisis has forced many to switch to online methods. However, one question keeps coming up: “Jo, is there a good way to monitor the participant environment when...
by Jo Evershed | Apr 5, 2022 | Behaviour Research Methods, Insights, Online Research, Tutorial
Your first step into programming online experiments.Many experimental psychologists want to learn to code. Favourite languages are JavaScript, R, Python and MATLAB. But why do so many researchers spend the time learning to script when they could...
by Clare | Feb 10, 2022 | Insights, Online Research
When you think of an online study, what type of study comes to mind? A questionnaire? A simple reaction time task with images and a button click? It’s easy to imagine how someone else can take a simple study online. But when you think about all the complexities...
by Franz | Jan 31, 2022 | Insights, Online Research
“Am I going to be successful taking research online. Are you sure it won’t be too technically difficult? I’m not a computer scientists and I don’t want to be!” — You, probably. I used to have the same problem. I wanted to take my research...
by Franz | Apr 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Gorilla Tools, Insights, Online Research, Tools
Good science needs properly powered studies. Ten years into the replication crisis, we know this more than ever. Behavioural science can’t progress while we have serious doubts about the generalisability of our findings. We know part of the...
by Jo Evershed | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Online Research
First year psychology undergrads at a poster session. They’re in small groups and presenting a small research project that they’ve created and recruited participants for. They’ve even interpreted the data that an R script has extracted for them. Oh,...