As I scheduled user studies last week for during the day, I wondered how most people made it. To a 11 am, a 1 pm, or a 3 pm user study. Did they work? Were they unemployed? Were they just students? Retired. Most of all, what are they doing that they have time to take a user study?
I don’t ask that question, but one guy did.
Thanks for that article! I’m glad he asked that question because I always wonder the same thing. Though he’s right… why are we justified when we do it, but nobody else is?
It’s a psychological thing, right… we always attribute external factors to negative things that happened to us (it’s a bad -day-, woke up on the wrong side of the -bed-, etc), whereas when other people do negative things, we attribute it to internal factors (they’re just a bad, or in this case, LAZY person). Fact of life. That’s how we are.
Though I wouldn’t mind finding a job that entailed just laying about all day. That’s all I’ve done this memorial day weekend and I quite enjoyed it!
But it’s not a negative thing. Rather it’s…how does one find the free time to make it to a user study scheduled in the middle of the day?