The Use of Reddit as an Inexpensive Source for High-Quality Data

Jamnik, Matthew R.; Lane, David

doi:10.7275/j18t-c009

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“…A total of 615 responses were collected through adverts posted on various subreddits on the forum website Reddit. Despite reported issues with regards to skewed demographics on Reddit (i.e., predominantly younger men in the US; see Clement, 2022), previous work has used this data collection approach to corroborate established findings in the psychological literature (e.g., Biddlestone et al, 2020;Green et al, 2021), supporting it as an inexpensive source of high-quality data (Jamnik & Lane, 2017). Once participants were removed for suspecting that they may have taken part in one of our previous studies, failing one of the possible attention checks, failing to provide at least one of the conjunction error scale responses, or not holding nationality from a US territory, the final sample consisted of 161 participants, 79 men, 77 women (M age = 36.19, SD age = 11.07).…”

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Once (but not twice) upon a time: Narrative inoculation against conjunction errors indirectly reduces conspiracy beliefs and improves truth discernment

Biddlestone

Roozenbeek

Linden

2022

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Psychological inoculation has proven effective at reducing susceptibility to misinformation. We present a novel storytelling approach to inoculation against susceptibility to the conjunction fallacy (d meta-analysis = 0.82), a known cognitive predictor of conspiracy beliefs. In Study 1 (Pilot; N = 161), a narrative inoculation (vs. control) reduced susceptibility to conjunction errors, and in turn, conspiracy beliefs regarding government malfeasance. In Study 2 (main experiment; N = 141; pre-registered), two separate narrative inoculations (vs. control) directly reduced susceptibility to conjunction errors, and indirectly reduced conspiracy beliefs regarding extra-terrestrial cover-ups. In addition, the inoculation messages improved detection of both real and fake news ('truth discernment'). We discuss theoretical and practical implications, including the use of inoculation to induce critical thinking styles, and tailoring inoculations that may suit storytelling mediums.

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confidence: 85%

Once (but not twice) upon a time: Narrative inoculation against conjunction errors indirectly reduces conspiracy beliefs and improves truth discernment

Biddlestone

Roozenbeek

Linden

2022

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…Center, Reddit is one of the few growing social media platforms (Auxier & Anderson, 2021). We are not the first to name Reddit as a source for convenient, high-quality data (e.g., Jamnik & Lane, 2017); however, we focus here on the utility of sites like Reddit to specifically attain better diversity in our samples. There are concerns relevant to online research in general and to using one singular social platform; however, some research suggests large differences filling a survey online versus offline do not emerge (T. Buchanan & Smith, 1999;Riva et al, 2003).…”

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“…Reddit is distinct yet offers inexpensive, high-quality data (Jamnik & Lane, 2017). Jamik & Lane's (2017) sample skewed male, white, and older (N =144 recruited in 2014).…”

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Personality across Diverse Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities in an Online Convenience Sample

Junkins¹,

Pantin²,

Derringer³

2022

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Sexual and gender minority (SGM) participants are generally underrepresented in quantitative psychology research. This affects the external validity of past research and overlooks a growing portion of the world’s population. The current study sought to characterize the feasibility of recruiting an SGM-diverse sample online by surveying personality and sexuality measures on the Reddit social media platform. Previous surveys report differences in the Big Five between limited categorical designations of gender and sexual orientation (e.g., excluding asexual or nonbinary people) and estimated at the level of factors, rather than finer-grained facets. Narrow categorical data cannot address whether differences represent distinct group characteristics or reflect broader patterns shared across members of diverse marginalized groups. In preregistered analyses of 1,259 participants (73% identifying as SGM), we explored several questions to evaluate the use of online convenience samples from social media. Personality differences between groups were small overall (|d|average= 0.16; |d|range = 0 - 0.66) and there was substantial variability between facet-level group differences (|d| ± 0.59). Measurement equivalence was not supported, so these differences are not interpretable in the way comparative psychology seeks. We discuss implications for the attainability of diverse samples, representativeness, and population trends as well as suggestions for improving our sampling demographics.

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“…This data collection served as a means of triangulation, as described by Lincoln and Guba (1985). As argued by Jamnik and David (2017), Reddit is a beneficial tool for inexpensive and reliable data collection. The survey had 76 respondents, and two subreddits were used to gather respondents.…”

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How privacy concerns impact Swedish citizens’ willingness to report crimes: a quantitative mobile phone survey

Lindqvist

Kävrestad

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify whether there is a lower willingness to report a crime if a victim must hand in their mobile phone as evidence. If that is the case, the research seeks to examine whether privacy concerns and lower willingness correlate with one another and thereby investigate whether privacy concerns could lead to fewer crimes being reported and resolved. Design/methodology/approach A mobile phone survey was distributed to 400 Swedish adults to identify their hypothetical willingness to report certain crimes with and without handing in their mobile phones as evidence. The results were then analysed using inferential statistics. Findings The result suggests that there is no meaningful correlation between privacy attitudes and willingness to report crime when the handover of a mobile phone is necessary. The results of this study however show a significant lower willingness to report crimes when the mobile phone must be handed in. Research limitations/implications Because the chosen target group were Swedish adults, the research results may lack generalisability for other demographics. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test other demographics. Originality/value This paper’s contribution is the novel exploration of attitudes and behaviours regarding the combination of privacy, digital forensics, mobile phones and crime reportage. This research effort examined the problematic situation that can arise for victims of crime, the invasion of privacy when providing evidence by handing in a mobile phone to the police’s forensic unit for examination.

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The Use of Reddit as an Inexpensive Source for High-Quality Data

Cited by 25 publications

References 21 publications

Once (but not twice) upon a time: Narrative inoculation against conjunction errors indirectly reduces conspiracy beliefs and improves truth discernment

Once (but not twice) upon a time: Narrative inoculation against conjunction errors indirectly reduces conspiracy beliefs and improves truth discernment

Personality across Diverse Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities in an Online Convenience Sample

How privacy concerns impact Swedish citizens’ willingness to report crimes: a quantitative mobile phone survey

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