Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS): Proposal for Renewed Support, 2012-2015

社会科学分时实验（TESS）：更新支持提案，2012-2015

• 批准号: 1227179
• 负责人: James Druckman
• 金额: $ 278.76万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1227179&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Time; Sharing; Experiments; Social; Sciences

Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) is a platform for conducting social science survey experiments fielded on probability-based samples of United States adults. TESS was established in 2001 and capitalizes on economies of scale to enable scholars from across the social sciences, on a competitive basis, to conduct ground-breaking research on issues of broad theoretical and practical importance. The intellectual merit of TESS is closely connected to its successes in enabling social scientists to collect original population-based experimental data in a timely manner; promoting better understanding of fundamental social, political and economic questions; maximizing financial efficiency by pooling expenses for otherwise separate studies; and offering mentoring and educational resources. The new initiatives extend educational aspects of TESS, broaden TESS' population of proposers, enable TESS to contribute to assessing the value of probability sampling for experimental inference, and enhance the review process to ensure the highest quality studies.The broader impacts of TESS are wide-ranging. Since its inception, TESS has provided more than 400 social, behavioral, and economic researchers with the opportunity to conduct original experiments, testing a broad range of innovative hypotheses. Proposals are solicited on a continuous basis, undergo rigorous peer review, and involve Internet-based data collection with a representative national sample. The project provides an enormous gain in efficiency since costs of sampling, data collection, and data management are distributed across studies. To date, TESS has conducted over 270 population-based experiments, across disciplines including sociology, psychology, political science, communication, economics, judgment and decision making, law, public health, communication, psychiatry, and others.By providing a common platform for population based experiments, TESS efficiently enables innovative scholars to identify causal dynamics that advance knowledge on topics such as investment behavior, judicial legitimacy, voting turnout, trust, and many more. TESS also facilitates methodological advances to topics such as the effects of web-tracking on survey response and the optimal ways to measure sensitive attitudes.TESS promotes teaching, training, and learning at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Students regularly submit proposals, many of which are funded. Even when not funded, however, students receive detailed feedback on their research at the critical design stage. TESS broadens the participation of underrepresented groups, both as investigators and research participants. At the heart of TESS' mission is the democratization of access to high quality, original experimental data, thereby putting the power of population-based experiments in the hands of researchers from all backgrounds, all academic institutions, and all career stages. And because the TESS data collection platform involves a representative sample, the results of TESS projects reflect the broad diversity of the United States.

社会科学分时实验（英语：Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences，TESS）是一个对美国成年人进行基于概率样本的社会科学调查实验的平台。TESS成立于2001年，利用规模经济，使来自社会科学领域的学者能够在竞争的基础上，对具有广泛理论和实践重要性的问题进行开创性的研究。TESS的智力价值与其在以下方面的成功密切相关：使社会科学家能够及时收集基于人口的原始实验数据;促进更好地了解基本的社会、政治和经济问题;通过集中其他单独研究的费用来最大限度地提高财务效率;以及提供指导和教育资源。这些新举措扩展了TESS的教育层面，扩大了TESS的提议者群体，使TESS能够为评估概率抽样对实验推理的价值做出贡献，并加强了审查过程，以确保最高质量的研究。TESS的更广泛影响是广泛的。自成立以来，TESS已经为400多名社会、行为和经济研究人员提供了进行原创实验的机会，测试了广泛的创新假设。不断征求建议，经过严格的同行审查，并涉及在互联网上收集具有代表性的国家样本的数据。该项目提供了一个巨大的效率增益，因为采样，数据收集和数据管理的成本分布在研究。到目前为止，TESS已经进行了270多项基于人群的实验，涉及的学科包括社会学、心理学、政治学、传播学、经济学、判断和决策、法律、公共卫生、传播学、精神病学等。通过为基于人群的实验提供一个公共平台，TESS有效地帮助创新学者识别因果动态，推动投资行为、司法合法性投票率信任度等等TESS还促进了一些主题的方法进步，例如网络跟踪对调查响应的影响以及衡量敏感态度的最佳方法。TESS促进本科和研究生层面的教学、培训和学习。学生们定期提交提案，其中许多提案都得到了资助。然而，即使没有资助，学生也会在关键的设计阶段收到关于他们研究的详细反馈。TESS扩大了代表性不足的群体的参与，无论是作为调查人员还是研究参与者。TESS使命的核心是使高质量的原始实验数据的获取民主化，从而将基于人群的实验的力量交给来自所有背景、所有学术机构和所有职业阶段的研究人员。由于TESS数据收集平台涉及具有代表性的样本，TESS项目的结果反映了美国的广泛多样性。