I do understand they are being used in consumer or market research. But what about if you engage them for your thesis? Are they reliable? Because of time constraints and for convenience, some students, including those taking their doctorates, sometimes rely on these services.
I don't understand your question. What aspects are you talking about? If you input a survey that has good qualities for the sample, then standard reliability statistics will reflect this. Or are you talking about the security of them, if they offer sampling how good is that, how accurate things like their response time measures are? Or do you mean if you tell it to branch if someone ticks X whether it successfully does?
Hi, Daniel. Thanks for your answer and sorry if I didn’t make myself clear. You can comment on the reliability with respect to the quality of the sample that these pollsters select for your survey. I made my question quite vague and general because I want to know as many aspects as possible regarding their reliability.
If you made your questions "quite vague" you might want to address that first, and then think about sampling bias.
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