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We should not only make research more accessible because it is the right thing to do, but because it provides more accurate results.

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Dr. Rua Williams discusses how accessible data collection methods provide better research results that are more comprehensive and valid.

Transcript (1/5): Dr. Rua Williams: Some ethics review are very antsy around the idea of using text‑based interviews, because they are worried about things like data privacy and leakage. There are ways to get a secure text‑based communication between two people, but you have to

(2/5) investigate it and substantiate it and explain it to your ethics review board. In the case of autistic and many other disabled people, or anybody who has affected speech or people that are deaf, and you don't have the finances for interpreters or whatever, there's many

(3/5) different ways that a text‑based interview is more effective. In my particular population, autistic adults, the way that it can be asynchronous and that they can send me floods of texts [laughs] and not be embarrassed by it, and they can say, "I'm not done yet," and I say,

(4/5) "Go ahead, keep going," these are things that make the data that you get much more meaningful than if you made somebody come and sit in a room with you for an hour. That is not the means by which that population is most effective at communicating.

(5/5) The data is more valid when you do it in this other way.

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