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My team and I are trying to use Inquisit for a reaction-time based experiment looking at attentional bias. However, with the no download policy on Mturk and CrowdFlower, we don't know a good site to recruit and pay subjects to participate in an experiment that requires a plug-in.

What's a good way or site to solve this problem?

Jeromy Anglim
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    Could you explain the no-download problem? Is the problem, that the data would reside on Mturk and you can't get at it? Maybe if I understood the problem, I'd have some idea. –  Jan 08 '14 at 19:13
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    The no-download problem is that websites such as Mturk would not allow tasks that require workers to download any sort of software or plug-in. Because Inquisit requires participants to download a plug-in, Mturk would not allow such experiment to be posted unless there are ways around it. – Michael Jan 08 '14 at 19:23
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    I see. And what region of the world should your participants come from, or what language should they speak? –  Jan 08 '14 at 19:39
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    If you're in the US and pay for participation, post an ad on Craigslist.org. If you need local or other country, post in a local equivalent. Pay through PayPal (you can implement automatic payment in your site, all you need is that your participants have a PayPal account and give their email address). Your sample will not be representative. –  Jan 08 '14 at 19:47
  • The region would be in the US, and participants would speak English. Thank you for your suggestion. – Michael Jan 08 '14 at 20:45
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    I'm very interested in any answer to this question. Also see this discussion of running longer studies on mturk and in particular this question on where to post studies online to get participants – Jeromy Anglim Jan 09 '14 at 00:40
  • Sorry to resurrect but has anyone found an answer to this as of yet? It seems like potentially the only other option is to resort to a Javascript or Flash based method like ScriptingRT or WebIAT which then you can use with Mturk (obvious issues there and this requires more know-how than Inquisit, and I'm not sure if they run single-category versions of the IAT). –  Jan 10 '15 at 17:19
  • I'm voting to close this as too broad. I'm actually basing the vote on the question being phrased such that it presumes a positive answer, when it is quite possible the answer is and will remain negative. – Christian Hummeluhr Mar 28 '15 at 12:36
  • @AliceD Am I missing something? I only see what's Craigslist suggestion, and I think it's fair to say that online data collection is moving away from downloads and towards JS/HTML5 solutions, so I don't see an answer coming. – Christian Hummeluhr Mar 28 '15 at 13:02
  • @ChristianHummeluhr - Yeah you might be right. I will leave this to others to support though, it's not my field. – AliceD Mar 28 '15 at 13:04
  • I've heard good things about https://prolificacademic.co.uk Their Terms and Conditions don't say anything about plugins, so I guess they allow it. –  Mar 28 '15 at 14:25
  • The same with https://www.socialsci.com/terms So, there are a couple alternatives that may work. Hopefully someone will turn up who has some experience with this. –  Mar 28 '15 at 14:32

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