No Participant Left Behind: Conducting Science During COVID-19

Stella F Lourenco; Arber Tasimi

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.003

No Participant Left Behind: Conducting Science During COVID-19

Trends Cogn Sci. 2020 Aug;24(8):583-584. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.003. Epub 2020 May 11.

Authors

Stella F Lourenco¹, Arber Tasimi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. Electronic address: stella.lourenco@emory.edu.
² Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Abstract

Cognitive scientists have ramped up online testing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although research conducted online solves the problem of data collection, the paucity of internet access among low-income and minority communities may reduce the diversity of study samples, and thus have an impact on the generalizability of scientific findings.

Keywords: COVID-19; diversity; online testing; participants.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Cognitive Science*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Cultural Diversity
Data Collection / methods*
Digital Divide*
Economic Status*
Ethnicity*
Humans
Internet Access*
Internet*
Pandemics
Patient Selection
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Research
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology