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Recruitment Workshop Brainstorming

# Recruitment Problems 
- sample size: we need to get more subjects to have more confidence in the results.
- industry experience
- domain knowledge
- EDI considerations
- incentives
- cost vs value
- ethical considerations
    - oversampling women for example
- building reputation with a community (so they don't reject your invites)
- self-selection bias (the same people always respond)
- privacy and IRB restrictions
- overfishing problem (returning to the same well)
- personal contacts effective but limited
- get lots of data but is the data reliable
    - e.g. fadeout effect
- filtering and selection: basic knowledge of X 
- how to get people to *complete* the study
    - they do the survey badly
    - they don't take it seriously
    - attention questions

# Recruitment Anecdotes
* mechanical turk: screening not the problem as much as "clicking through to the end"
* Carianne Pretorius, Prolific for design tasks
* Daniel Russo, Prolific
* Chris Brown, in person attendance at meetups
*  The North West Branch of the British Computer Society (Julian Bass, Peggy Gregory) put on this event in 2019 and I (Lucy H) found study partners from it. We got to present our research proposals to local SE people / orgs. We also got to share challenges of research and publication. https://www.bcs.org/events/2019/july/wor…


# A Workshop at ICSE
* is a good idea []
* is a bad idea []

## Other suggestions
* a special issue at (Venue)
* a seminar or online invite-only working session
* ...


# Workshop Output
(what should be the result of this workshop)
* a reviewer guideline
    * and why not to reject
    * getting away from strict thresholds for sample size
* best practices for online crowd-sourcing marketplace
    * task structure
    * compensation
    * identification of the "target population" on these marketplaces
* educational material for non-empirical researchers (build understanding)

# Keynote ideas
(who, what topics)
* [Daniel Lakens]("http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/"), Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* [Stefan van der Stigchel]("https://www.stefanvanderstigchel.nl/"), Utrecht University, The Netherlands
* community development manager e.g. at ROS, Linux Foundation etc
* Chris Bird, Ciera Jaspan, etc. researchers at MSFT, Google, Jetbrains
* Successful industry-partnered researchers (e.g. Gorschek, Runeson)

# Submission formats
(tend to favor informal, 2-4 page submissions)

# Schedule ideas
(1 day, breakouts, working sessions)
* add an industry section - how they work with research, how they recruit



# Workshop Name
* ROPES (Recruitment Of Participants in Experiments for Software)
* ?? 

# Please add me to a potential workshop PC
(this section will be assumed to be a subset of the next section)
* name, affiliation, email
* Alex Bezzubov, Jetbrains
* Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, a.serebrenik@tue.nl


# Please contact me with updates
* name, affiliation, email
* Janja Garnbret, Utrecht, janja@example.com
* Chris Brown, Virginia Tech, dcbrown@vt.edu
* Lucy H
* 

# Related Work
(papers/sections of papers, and workshops on this topic people should be aware of)
* Danilova et al., ["Do you Really Code? Designing and Evaluating Screening Questions for Online Surveys with Programmers"](https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00057)
* Feldt et al., "[Four commentaries on the use of students and professionals in empirical software engineering experiments](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-018-9655-0)"
* Lakens, ["Sample Size Justification"](https://psyarxiv.com/9d3yf/)
* Baltes and Ralph, ["Sampling in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07764)