[Air-L] Alternative to Amazon gift card for incentives

[Christian Fuchs]

My three cents:
The simple and most appealing alternative is cash instead of vouchers!
Some will of course find this or that voucher appealing but cash gives 
more freedom to the participants to spend the money as they please...
Biases primarily exist because of ideologies not because of incentives...
Best Chrsitan

On 05/08/2021 22:48, Peter Timusk wrote:
> Just mentioning again ( this topic is discussed in the list archives) the
> luxury of working in government surveys that while some of our surveys are
> legal mandatory to respond to many are voluntary and we offer no incentive
> at all.
>
> There are possible biases introduced with incentives. Example: someone who
> is wealth will not reply because a 50$ Amazon gift card is not worth it.
>
> In government surveys too, we can not favour any private businesses, so
> gift cards to businesses are not going to work.
>
> My suggestions for more neutral unbiased survey work.
>
> Peter not speaking for my employer Statistics Canada
>
> On Thu., Aug. 5, 2021, 11:23 a.m. Hara, Noriko, <nhara at indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am wondering if anyone can recommend any alternatives to Amazon gift
>> cards for providing incentives for study participants.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
>>
>> Noriko
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>      Noriko Hara, Ph.D. |   https://norikohara.org<https://norikohara.org/>
>>      Professor
>>      Department of Information & Library Science
>>      Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering
>>      Indiana University
>>
>>
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