Guides
How paid research actually works
Plain explanations for people hearing about this for the first time: what it is, how participants are selected, when the money arrives.
What is paid research
Companies and researchers pay ordinary people for their opinion on a product. The formats, what platforms say they pay, and how to tell real research from a scam.
Read →How screeners work
The screener decides whether you get into a study. How it works on different platforms, whether it is paid, and why inventing answers backfires.
Read →Why research applications get rejected
A rejection almost never means something is wrong with you. Seven real reasons from the platforms’ help pages, and what to do about each.
Read →How research payments work
Who pays, the stages the money goes through, how long each platform takes, and what to do when a payment is late.
Read →How LazyBounty collects and counts its data
Where the studies in our catalogue come from, how often we check them, how we calculate medians and country access, and what our numbers do not show.
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