u/Cloenya

Hi everyone, I just received my first rejection after 9 months from the last one, and I’m a bit frustrated. I failed a single attention check in a study that lasted more than 5 minutes, which, according to the platforms' guidelines, it shouldn't result in an rejection.

In this case, the attention check asked me to select "Strongly Agree," but I accidentally misread it and clicked 'Strongly Disagree.' To make things more difficult, the instructions and the actual question were on two separate pages, making it impossible to double-check before submitting.

Is it actually '"egal" or within guidelines for researchers to split an attention check across two pages like that?

Thank you for any answer.