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[quote=AFWestat][quote=Anonymous]Why is Westat willing to arrange in-home visit with parents in "western" DC but not the eastern portion of the city? There is something unsettling about the picture being painted when you are most interested in suburban and wealthier areas of DC most. Also, is it really professional to gather subjects through this route? Is this how high quality research is done?[/quote] Good questions, thanks for asking! Unfortunately, we only have a handful of testers who are able to do home visits, and since we are located in Rockville most of them have a travel radius near that area. That said, we are always looking for new ways to expand our study to more parts of the DMV. In fact, we recently expanded to the Pasadena, Maryland area, and the tester performing home visits in that area actually has a travel radius that covers much of east DC. I'll talk to the research team and clarify which new neighborhoods this includes and add them to the website. It's also worth noting that this study is a formative research project and does not need to be a representative sample. That's why I--a Westat employee--was able to help contribute to the study by signing up my family to participate, and why we are also able to take the same child in multiple phases (i.e., we've had several parents who's children have taken both the 6 and 12 month tests). As to your last point, gathering participants via social and digital media is actually very common these days. Universities, research organizations like Westat, and government institutions alike are all turning to it to help them recruit participants for public health and social science research. In fact--just for an example that's not related to Westat--about a month ago my family participated in a "Peekaboo study" as part of the Georgetown Early Learning project that my wife heard about on the U Street Tots Yahoo listserve. All research organizations do of course still have a screening process to eliminate participants who are not qualified, but from a recruitment perspective there's little difference between finding participants like this and hanging up flyers around the area, for example. Let me know if you have any more questions![/quote]
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