How do you feel about demographic questions and commonly asked questions (comments about survey) being used as attention checks?
I have been taking surveys on many platforms such as Swagbucks and MTurk. There has a been a huge increase in researchers using demographic pages for attention checks. Sometimes these attention checks are demographic questions. For example "What is your race. We want to make sure you are paying attention so select White". I remember taking one survey and it wanted me to lie that I am a republican in the demographics. Then, it required me to support the republican party by posting a tweet that the researcher would use to show proof of my "support".
Other times these attention checks are commonly asked questions. For example "Do you have any comments for us? Did you experience technical problems? This is an attention check please write the word lploed or sometimes this question also has, a picture appears under this statement saying "This is an attention check. Type the word of this object. We do not want your comments. Only type the name of the object".
There is also a check that says "Please enter your Mturk ID, but don't. Enter this number and we will ask you for your ID later in the survey".
These types of questions seem like traps as they almost always appear at the end of the survey. If you fail them, then the researchers have free data as you completed the survey. One researcher told me that participants don't pay attention on demographic pages. How is this true? I think he is lying. I don't believe the average person stops paying attention on demographic pages. This researcher is basically saying we are providing false demographics. He doesn't believe certain types of people can fall under certain income brackets and religions.
Should there be rules set by Beer Money sites to ban these types of attention checks?
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