Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis.
Courtney B HiltonSamuel A MehrPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
Improving generalization in psychology will require more expansive data collection to fuel more expansive statistical models, beyond the scale of traditional lab research. We argue that citizen science is uniquely positioned to scale up data collection and, that in spite of certain limitations, can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis.