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There have been several recent threads on school debt and other previous threads on what research people have been doing. I thought of both when I read the following article today on the big bucks🙂 students can earn from participating in studies not as researchers but as subjects.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614...guinea_pigs;_ylt=AmpLMlw_rFarJpC_rmjlCWPMWM0F
I also thought I would ask: in what types of strange/ interesting experiments people have been subjects and also if anyone has really earned any good money doing it such as mentioned in the article ($3,000)? Of course, the strange thing is why college students are still being treated as representative samples of the population.
I mean, come on, just look around SDN: RayneeDeigh, Therapist4Chnge, Paramour, Tkj, Sorg, Irish, JonSnow, nearly everyone else I did not bother to mention, and Myself (see me too!) are hardly a "normal population"! If anything, SDN Psychology Thread is an indication of what happens when people who took Intro to Psych and volunteered for experiments were never properly debriefed! 😱 Psychology is supposed to help individuals, animals, and society prosper and instead the experiments have created countless lunatics! Time for a massive debriefing: o.k. when I snap my fingers everyone can finally go back to normal! Two snaps for RayneeDeigh!
I never was a subject in any very unusual or memorable experiments - just the usual answering questionaires. However, once a graduate student had a entire class of mine serve as subjects; he announced that rather than pay everyone individually, he would pool all the money for a lottery. One evening, after the experiment had taken place, I received a call from the graduate researcher informing me that my name was selected as the winner for the money - I won $1,000!🙂 (yes, I did in fact receive the money - it was not to elicit an experimental reaction from me).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614...guinea_pigs;_ylt=AmpLMlw_rFarJpC_rmjlCWPMWM0F
I also thought I would ask: in what types of strange/ interesting experiments people have been subjects and also if anyone has really earned any good money doing it such as mentioned in the article ($3,000)? Of course, the strange thing is why college students are still being treated as representative samples of the population.
I mean, come on, just look around SDN: RayneeDeigh, Therapist4Chnge, Paramour, Tkj, Sorg, Irish, JonSnow, nearly everyone else I did not bother to mention, and Myself (see me too!) are hardly a "normal population"! If anything, SDN Psychology Thread is an indication of what happens when people who took Intro to Psych and volunteered for experiments were never properly debriefed! 😱 Psychology is supposed to help individuals, animals, and society prosper and instead the experiments have created countless lunatics! Time for a massive debriefing: o.k. when I snap my fingers everyone can finally go back to normal! Two snaps for RayneeDeigh!I never was a subject in any very unusual or memorable experiments - just the usual answering questionaires. However, once a graduate student had a entire class of mine serve as subjects; he announced that rather than pay everyone individually, he would pool all the money for a lottery. One evening, after the experiment had taken place, I received a call from the graduate researcher informing me that my name was selected as the winner for the money - I won $1,000!🙂 (yes, I did in fact receive the money - it was not to elicit an experimental reaction from me).
