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Dear AUDITORY,
I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.
It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands
of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are
conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.
If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at
tinyurl.com/jspsych-census.
This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.
We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw,
Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (
sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) off-list if you have any questions about it.
many thanks,
Sam
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Samuel Mehr
School of Psychology, University of Auckland
and Child Study Center, Yale University
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