An experiment testing the effects of certain and uncertain incentives on effort and knowledge accuracy in political decision-making. The data was produced by Thomas Jamieson and is associated with the Journal of Experimental Political Science. The dataset was last updated on June 16, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the effect of incentive structures on task effort based on the experimental conditions described.
- Modeling the relationship between incentives and knowledge question accuracy as tested in the experiment.
- Comparing behavioral responses to certain versus uncertain incentives for knowledge accuracy.
- Validating experimental designs for political knowledge tasks based on the described findings.
Strengths
- Dataset is directly linked to a published experimental study in political science.
- Experimental design tests a clear theoretical point about information cost and incentives.
- Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-06-16 15:18:47.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Journal of Experimental Political Science
- Collection Method
- Experimental study
- Freshness
- 2026-06-16 15:18:47