College students are willing subjects for all kinds of studies:
A graduate student told the AP that his study of the “Cocktail Party Effect” wouldn’t be possible without the ample pool of cheap volunteers. In the cocktail-party study, students were paid a measly ten-spot to spend an hour in a soundproof booth listening to five-digit numbers in one ear and gibberish in the other. The study aims to find out more about how people concentrate. “It’s amazing what they’ll do for 10 bucks,” he said of the volunteers. “I almost feel bad for them.”
