While you take a study, Testable quietly confirms a genuine person is behind the answers. It protects the quality of the research and keeps paid opportunities flowing to real participants like you.
Automated “participants” and answer-bots would ruin studies and drain the pay meant for people. Our authenticity checks keep them out so your work counts.
We consider how you interact with the page and your device and connection — not the meaning of your answers, not your other tabs, and never your screen.
There’s nothing extra to do. Almost everyone is confirmed instantly and never notices the checks are there at all.
It’s a simple 0–100 read on how confident we are that a real person is present. Most sessions land comfortably in the green. If something looks unusual, a person — not just software — reviews it before any decision is made, and you can always ask us to take another look.
Green: confirmed human — where almost every session lands. Amber and pink: a human takes a look before anything happens.
Screen readers, keyboard-only navigation and other assistive tools are welcome and are accounted for — they won’t count against you. If you ever feel you were wrongly flagged, tell us and a person will look at it.
Questions about a session, a score, or your data? Real people read both inboxes.
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Testable Minds was developed with financial support from an Arts & Humanities Research Council grant (Science in Culture, RTS-2013-2017).
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