CompliancePower AnalysisMethodologyExperience SamplingStudy Design

What a review of 162 experience-sampling studies shows about current practice

A systematic review published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science extracted methodological detail from 162 experience-sampling studies published in a single year. The picture it produces is one of wide variation in design choices and uneven reporting, with sample-size justification and missing-data handling the weakest points. Here is what the numbers say and what they imply for a protocol being written now.

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