How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research - BusinessWorld Online

How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research - BusinessWorld Online

There was a time, just a couple of decades ago, when researchers in psychology and health always had to engage with people face-to-face or use the telephone. The worst-case scenario was sending questionnaire packs out to postal addresses and waiting for handwritten replies. So we either literally met our participants, or we had multiple corroborating points of evidence that indicated we were dealing with a real person who was, therefore, likely …