Marc Hooghe|Dietlind Stolle|Valérie-Anne Mahéo|Sara Vissers
Why Can’t a Student Be More Like an Average Person?: Sampling and Attrition Effects in Social Science Field and Laboratory Experiments
KU Leuven|McGill University|McGill University|KU Leuven
social sciences use experimental research expanded greatly recent years various reasons experiments rely convenience samples undergraduate university students practice however might endanger validity experimental findings assume students react differently experimental conditions general population therefore urge experimental researchers broaden pool participants despite obvious practical difficulties might entail regard recruitment motivation participants report experiment comparing reactions student nonstudent participants showing clear significant differences related problem differential attrition rates might endanger effects found longterm research argue experimental researchers pay attention characteristics participants experimental design