Studies

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Important

The Studies API has rate limits in place to prevent researchers from launching too many studies with low numbers of participants. If your study URLs each represent a variant of the same task, with a specified number of participants accessing each variant, please consider using our Taskflow product, which is tailored for this and does not have a publishing limit.


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To recruit participants for your research, you create a draft study with your audience filters and cost and then publish the study to start recruiting. This is a two step process because publishing a study to participants requires many different and complex steps:

  • Checking if your account has sufficient balance to pay participants
  • Locking the amount required
  • Launching our algorithm to find the best suitable participants for you
  • Sending emails and more

By separating it into 2 steps, researchers can be confident that their study is created, no information is lost and it can be updated before publishing.

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Study flow