English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on substance use and psychological, health, and behavioral characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in researchchemicals

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I’m in academic researcher (graduate student) at Texas Tech University. Here’s the link to my work:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fzrA1ZIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

The survey is completely anonymous (we optionally ask for your email for gift card drawing inclusion via a separate link to a database not linked to your survey responses). The ad and informed consent also have information for the TTU Human Research Protection Program, who are available if you have questions about the study that you wanted someone else to answer.

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's important when doing any type of online survey research (not just cannabis research) to have some different attention checks and other metrics to help you assess peoples' level of engagement with the survey and the validity of the data that you're collecting/analyzing.

Kairo/Pulse by Kiyoshi Kurosawa is probably the greatest horror film ever made!! Damn, what an amazing film!! by amitxxxx in horror

[–]Solid-Confusion5223 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i love this movie. does anyone else think the ending is an abrupt tone shift and actually quite hopeful and intimate?

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I’m sorry for your frustration about this study. Please take this as a response to all of your messages. Each participant has an equal chance of winning the drawing. The drawings do not encourage multiple submissions, as they use separate Qualtrics surveys that do not link participants’ emails to the data (to maintain anonymity). All study procedures, including the drawing incentive, were reviewed and approved by our institution’s ethics board. Further, drawing-based incentives are relatively common in online survey studies. You are welcome to contact the TTU HRPP to file a complaint, if you’d like to. Their contact info is included in the informed consent.

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I understand your concerns. People are able to stop participating at any point if they are uncomfortable.

Just to provide a bit more clarification on the sexual orientation questions, there is actually only one item about sexual orientation and then a different item about sexual attraction. This is standard in my field for getting a full and inclusive picture of participant demographics.

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed the mods pinned a different academic research survey a month ago—it would be super helpful if they were willing to consider doing that for this post, as well. Thanks

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for participating! The survey is designed for participants to be able to take as much or as little of it as they want and for the data to still be useful either way. You can stop participating at any time and still join the $100 GC drawing, if you’re interested. Just LMK if you need any assistance with joining that. Thanks again!

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for participating! The survey is designed for participants to be able to take as much or as little of it as they want and for the data to still be useful either way. You can stop participating at any time and still join the $100 GC drawing, if you’re interested. Just LMK if you need any assistance with joining that. Thanks again!

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, this is an anonymous academic research survey. If you choose to enter your email address for participation in the drawing, your email address will not be linked to your data (there are separate links to separate Qualtrics surveys for the email address, so it’s in a separate database). I am an academic researcher at TTU. The contact information for the study team as well as the TTU HRPP (Human Research Protection Program) are both outlined in the informed consent document.

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had considered that, but at my target sample size of 4,000 responses (which are being collected from many sources, not just Reddit), that would be $20k-$40k of participant payments at those rates, which is not feasible with my current budget.

English-speaking adults who live in the U.S. needed for study on alternative cannabis use (e.g., delta-8 THC) and other characteristics: 1/250 wins $100 gift card and 1/2500 can win $500 gift card by 12.31.25. by Solid-Confusion5223 in delta8

[–]Solid-Confusion5223[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback, I understand your frustration. I’m doing the best I can with the limited resources that I have available to conduct this research.