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I am finishing up my first semester and I have decided to pursue publishing. My question is how many respondents do i need as a minimum for publishers and peers to believe my findings? I plan to use a survey site and pay for people to take the survey which will cost $300/100 responses. Will this method be respected. Alternatively, does anyone have experience using online advertising to recruit respondents to take the survey at no cost?
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I am finishing up my first semester and I have decided to pursue publishing. My question is how many respondents do i need as a minimum for publishers and peers to believe my findings? I plan to use a survey site and pay for people to take the survey which will cost $300/100 responses. Will this method be respected. Alternatively, does anyone have experience using online advertising to recruit respondents to take the survey at no cost?
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Hi - I think the best person to discuss this topic would be your PhD supervisor.
I think by survey site you mean Amazon MTurk? If you are doing a scenario analysis, then around 50 per cell is usually recommended.
Of course you will have to account for rejection at around 15%-20%. So, there you go.
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I am finishing up my first semester and I have decided to pursue publishing. My question is how many respondents do i need as a minimum for publishers and peers to believe my findings? I plan to use a survey site and pay for people to take the survey which will cost $300/100 responses. Will this method be respected. Alternatively, does anyone have experience using online advertising to recruit respondents to take the survey at no cost?
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Sample size depends on effect size and power of your test. If you do not understand these terms, then you aren't ready to do your study.

Gone are the days when people used guesswork and feelings to estimate sample sizes. Reviewers will now want to see you have done your homework. GL!

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Thank you for your responses. I have found a calculator that determines needed sample size to ensure specific confidence intervals and margins of error.
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Sample size depends on effect size and power of your test
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I am finishing up my first semester and I have decided to pursue publishing. My question is how many respondents do i need as a minimum for publishers and peers to believe my findings? I plan to use a survey site and pay for people to take the survey which will cost $300/100 responses. Will this method be respected. Alternatively, does anyone have experience using online advertising to recruit respondents to take the survey at no cost?


Sample size depends on effect size and power of your test. If you do not understand these terms, then you aren't ready to do your study.

Gone are the days when people used guesswork and feelings to estimate sample sizes. Reviewers will now want to see you have done your homework. GL!

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Please note that sample size estimation is both a science and some amount of skill.

A statistically adequate sample size will depend on effect size and power of the test (as I stated above). This assumes that you have prior research results that will allow you to estimate effect size. In the absence of this, you would need to make guesses. These guesses would need some justifcation when presenting your work to reviewers.