Call for Proposals: Behavioral Research with FindingFive and Qntfy

Do you have a research idea that you’ve been wanting to test? We are excited to announce that FindingFive (www.findingfive.com), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to powering online behavioral research, is partnering with Qntfy (www.qntfy.com), a behavioral analytics firm, to offer two (2) $250 awards to implement your idea using the FindingFive platform. We welcome proposals for research ideas that can be answered with online experiments with human participants. FindingFive will also feature a summary of your project and experimental results in our blog, co-written with you!

Overview

FindingFive and Qntfy will award two (2) proposals with up to $250 USD each. The award must be used exclusively towards covering participant fees.

Proposal requirements

• The proposed research must be implemented on and powered by the FindingFive platform (FindingFive will gladly consider requests for new features as required by the proposed research).
• Award funds must only be used as payment for study participants run on FindingFive, either via Amazon Mechanical Turk or in person.
• The proposed research must employ experimental methods with at least 1 control condition and 1 experimental treatment condition (broadly defined).
• The proposal must address issues of statistical power.
• The proposed research must receive ethical approval from your institution’s Institutional Review Board prior to data collection.
• Data collection and analysis must be completed by August 31, 2020.
• A project summary must be sent to FindingFive by October 31, 2020.
• Any publications or presentations on findings discovered in this research project must acknowledge FindingFive and Qtnfy as a funding source.

Application details

• The proposal should be written in English, and must include the following information in at most 5 pages, double-spaced:
  • the research question of interest
  • a brief explanation of the relevant theoretical background
  • the proposed experimental design
  • the hypotheses
  • the consideration of statistical power
  • the proposed statistical methodology highlighting variables of interest, especially the behavioral outcome
  • a statement about the novelty, importance, and implications of the project
  • the expected total of participant fees (we recommend factoring in a 10% budgetary headroom to account for potential technical hiccups in online studies)
• Proposal submissions are due by March 2, 2020, 11:59pm EST.
• Submit proposals in PDF format by email to hello@findingfive.com with a subject “FindingFive Qntfy Award Proposal”.

Any questions or comments regarding this call for proposals can be sent to researcher.help@findingfive.com .