Hi all,
I need a bit of help. I'm a researcher at NYU, studying the criminal justice system. I am looking for participants to act as jurors and watch a video of a criminal trial. (Experiment here.) I think it's an interesting trial--and tough decision--but I'll let you decide.
I think it would be a great experience for you, especially if you have never served on a criminal jury. It would also help me a lot and would generate valuable data about the American legal system.
Previously, I used a recruitment service called StudyResponse that's run by Syracuse University. They have a large pool of people to contact and were supposed to be pretty good. But I think they've become a victim of their success. With more researchers paying them to use their list, the people on the list have been bombarded with emails. So they simply ignore the recruitment emails.
The response rate for my study was an abysmal 3 percent -- and only 124 of 880 people responded to the recruitment email. The dropout curve is below:
After that lackluster experience, it's clear that I need to ask an ambitious, energized, and dependable community for help. My first thought: Daily Kos!
If you are interested in participating, please visit the website for the trial of Commonwealth of Virginia vs. McNamara: https://its.law.nyu.edu/.... Thank you!
P.S. Yes, I know that Daily Kos readers are different in some ways from the jury pool at large. I don't think it will make a great difference to the experiment, given the question that is being studied, but it may. In that case, the conclusions would have limited application: the results would apply to jurors with the same relevant characteristics of the Daily Kos community.