Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Testable, Iasi, Romania.
Testable, Iasi, Romania.
Prog Brain Res. 2020;253:243-262. doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2020.06.005. Epub 2020 Jul 9.
A major pain for researchers in all fields is that they have less and less time for actual science activities: reading, thinking, coming up with new theories and hypotheses, testing, analyzing data, writing. In psychology, three of the most time-consuming nonactual science activities are: learning how to program an experiment, recruiting participants, and preparing teaching materials. Testable (www.testable.org) provides a suite of academic tools to speed things up considerably. The Testable software allows the development of most psychology experiments in minutes, using a natural language form and a spreadsheet. Furthermore, any experiment can be easily converted into a social experiment in Testable Arena, with multiple participants interacting and viewing each other's responses. Experiments can then be published to Testable Library, a public repository for demonstration and sharing purposes. Participants can be recruited from Testable Minds, the subject pool with the most advanced participants verification system. Testable Minds employs multiple checks (such as face authentication) to ensure participants have accurate demographics (age, sex, location), are human, unique, and reliable. Finally, the Testable Class module can be used to teach psychology through experiments. It features over 50 ready-made classic psychology experiments, fully customizable, which instructors can add to their classes, together with their own experiments. These experiments can then be made available to students to do, import, modify, and use to collect data as part of their class. These Testable tools, backed up by a strong team of academic advisors and thousands of users, can save psychology researchers and other behavioral scientists valuable time for science.
对于各个领域的研究人员来说,一个主要的痛点是他们用于实际科学活动(阅读、思考、提出新理论和假设、测试、分析数据、写作)的时间越来越少。在心理学中,耗时最多的三项非实际科学活动是:学习如何编程实验、招募参与者和准备教学材料。Testable(www.testable.org)提供了一整套学术工具,可以大大提高工作效率。Testable 软件允许使用自然语言形式和电子表格在几分钟内开发大多数心理学实验。此外,任何实验都可以在 Testable Arena 中轻松转换为社交实验,多个参与者可以相互交互并查看彼此的响应。然后可以将实验发布到 Testable Library,这是一个用于演示和共享目的的公共存储库。可以从 Testable Minds(拥有最先进参与者验证系统的主体池)中招募参与者。Testable Minds 采用多种检查(例如面部认证)来确保参与者具有准确的人口统计信息(年龄、性别、位置)、是人类、唯一且可靠的。最后,Testable Class 模块可用于通过实验教授心理学。它具有 50 多个现成的经典心理学实验,完全可定制,教师可以将其添加到课程中,以及他们自己的实验。然后,学生可以使用这些实验来完成、导入、修改和收集数据作为他们课程的一部分。这些 Testable 工具由一支强大的学术顾问团队和数千名用户支持,可以为心理学研究人员和其他行为科学家节省宝贵的科学时间。