The importance of accounting for off-task behaviours during data collection

Allison C. Drody (), Effie J. Pereira and Daniel Smilek
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Allison C. Drody: University of Waterloo
Effie J. Pereira: University of Waterloo
Daniel Smilek: University of Waterloo

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, vol. 7, issue 8, 1234-1236

Abstract: Off-task behaviours, such as media multitasking, are frequent in social science experiments and are especially common during online data collection. Such off-task behaviour can affect the quality of research data, making it crucial to understand the nature of this behaviour and to account for its influences.

Date: 2023
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