Guy Jantic on Nostr: npub19xn7c…z974n Ah, that makes sense. I've applied for funding in the past to do ...
npub19xn7ctkcp2qry5qutf9qt363lptxew45whmpe0h55ts4lrcdll0qjz974n (npub19xn…974n) Ah, that makes sense.
I've applied for funding in the past to do surveys, and to pay participants for their time. It's an entire thing. The people holding the purse strings (e.g., state governments, universities, granting foundations) can get really weird and obsessive about "preventing abuse" of money given to participants. All the (very few) times I've had money for participants, the funders insisted on gift cards and having participants sign for them (I did some stuff to make that much more anonymous, anyway).
The main reason people send a token amount like $2 is to leverage the human tendency to feel a need to reciprocate. If you "pre-give" some cash to potential participants, it actually increases survey response rates more than giving a larger amount afterward, contingent on participation.
Getting a survey's response rate above some reasonable number, maybe even as low as 20%, is a massive challenge. If you don't have a high enough response rate, you can't really trust your results.
I've applied for funding in the past to do surveys, and to pay participants for their time. It's an entire thing. The people holding the purse strings (e.g., state governments, universities, granting foundations) can get really weird and obsessive about "preventing abuse" of money given to participants. All the (very few) times I've had money for participants, the funders insisted on gift cards and having participants sign for them (I did some stuff to make that much more anonymous, anyway).
The main reason people send a token amount like $2 is to leverage the human tendency to feel a need to reciprocate. If you "pre-give" some cash to potential participants, it actually increases survey response rates more than giving a larger amount afterward, contingent on participation.
Getting a survey's response rate above some reasonable number, maybe even as low as 20%, is a massive challenge. If you don't have a high enough response rate, you can't really trust your results.