INCENTIVES + SOCIAL MEDIA RECRUITMENT + MINIMAL SUBJECT INTERACTION = POTENTIAL FOR FRAUD!
Joan Carpenter, Casey Jackson, Liza Behrens · 2023
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Joan Carpenter, Casey Jackson, and Liza Behrens warn that paid online recruitment can draw fake research subjects. Their team had set out to survey nursing home care staff about risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Posts on social media offered a modest payment for surveys and talks. Screening ran mostly by email, with little live contact. Four months in, a talk exposed a fraud.
The person could not answer basic care work questions in context. A deeper check found that bots had filed eight surveys. The fake data were cut from the study files. New guards went in: phone checks of eligibility, scans for copy-paste language in emails, and a CAPTCHA step. The 2023 report urges teams to build fraud checks in from the start.
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| CREATOR | Joan Carpenter, Casey Jackson, Liza Behrens |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |