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

[Ahmed Medien]

How about specific conference tickets as a form of compensation? Some of
them can be $100+ if the participants are students within a specific
department.

Happy to ask/liaise with the rest of the truth and trust online
<http://truthandtrustonline.com> organizing team if we could allocate a
number of sponsored tickets. Please feel free to reach out.

A

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 5:58 PM Liz Crocker <lcrocker at bu.edu> wrote:

> We try to compensate participants for their time if possible since we're
> asking them to do labor for us. It's true that incentives can bias who
> responds but the ethics of compensation outweighed our concern about that.
> Our challenge is that it needs to be something everyone can use
> so in-person retail stores don't always work (ex: not everyone has a
> WholeFoods nearby.) We also wanted something with a lot of options so that
> it was truly useful to everyone (ex: not just Barnes and Noble.) Economics
> studies suggest gift cards (or other tangible rewards that aren't just
> cash) often motivate more in short-term scenarios than cash. That includes
> VISA or MasterCard options so that's what we often used. Though like
> someone else noted it does come with a processing fee. We've also done
> Target gift cards, which have a decent online retail site.
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 5:01 PM S.A. Applin <sally at sally.com> wrote:
>
> > It isn’t always true that someone who is wealthy wouldn’t want to
> > participate. Sometimes they do.
> >
> > Alternately, with no incentive, people for whom time is a
> > by-the-hour-compensation issue, may be more willing to.
> >
> > I understand that for government it would be different.
> >
> > I’m glad there is more discussion in the list archives.
> >
> > When I did my dissertation, my research subjects were more interested in
> > being heard than being compensated, and that was interesting in itself.
> >
> > Sally
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 5, 2021, at 1:48 PM, Peter Timusk <peterotimusk at gmail.com>
> 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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