From: Economic Science Association [ESA@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] on behalf of David Reiley [reiley@ELLER.ARIZONA.EDU] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:32 PM To: ESA@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: [ESA] TESS Internet and phone experiments Dear ESA members and friends, I have been asked to forward you the following announcement about an opportunity to do survey-based experimental research. Best, David TESS ANNOUNCES THIRD SPECIAL COMPETITION Starting July 1, 2004, TESS will accept proposals for larger studies on upcoming TESS Internet and telephone survey-experiments. For telephone-based data collection, we are accepting proposals as large as 6,000 respondent-minutes (instead of the standard 2,000 respondent-minute limit). For Internet-based data collection, we are accepting proposals as large as 12,000 respondent-questions (instead of the standard 8000 respondent-question limit). This new opportunity is part of TESS's continuing attempt to spur innovation in the social sciences, and to extend opportunities for original data collection to all scholars. As always, scholars in the applicant's chosen discipline will judge the proposals, and TESS will collect data for the winning proposals free of charge. Authors of winning proposals then receive exclusive access to the data for nine months. After that time, TESS releases the data for public use on its website, ExperimentCentral.org. Both the telephone and Internet samples are random probability samples of people in the United States. The Indiana University Center for Survey Research collects the telephone survey data during a thirty-minute interview of between 2000 and 3000 respondents (depending upon how many proposals are accepted). Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, CA, collects data for those who wish to use the Internet. Sample sizes and attributes for Internet-based experiments are, therefore, more flexible (e.g., a greater range of specialized sampling is possible). Through the review process and during pre-testing, TESS also offers advice on how to make the experiments more effective. Proposals must be submitted through ExperimentCentral.org by Monday, November 1, 2004. TESS will notify applicants of its decision as soon as possible thereafter, typically within two months for the special competitions, and one month for regular submissions. For more information on how to submit a proposal for the special competitions or as a regular submission, for news about winners of previous competitions, and for data from previous experiments, please visit our website at http://experimentcentral.org. TESS is funded by the National Science Foundation. Arthur Lupia (University of Michigan) & Diana Mutz (University of Pennsylvania) serve as Principal Investigators. Jesse Menning University of Michigan Research Assistant for Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) www.experimentcentral.org -- My home page: http://eller.arizona.edu/~reiley _________________________________________________________________ You have been sent this message due to your registration for the mailing list of the Economic Science Association. Any member of this list may send out announcements to the list of general interest to experimental economists. To do so, please address your email message to . If you would like to be removed from our mailing list, please take the following steps: 1. Visit the ESA Web site: 2. Log in, using your email address and ESA password. If you've forgotten your password, click the appropriate link to have it emailed to you. 3. Click on "My User Profile" on the left-hand menu. Deactivate the "include me on the mailing list" checkbox. This will remove your email address from the list kept on the ESA site. Since the listserv itself is currently updated manually from the list kept by the ESA, it may take up to a month or so before you stop receiving mailings from the ESA. For any additional questions, contact David Reiley, ESA Webmaster, at: _________________________________________________________________