Creating an experiment: experiment stages

Here’s a description of the supported stages in experiment creation:

• Terms of Service: Displays the Terms of Service. Participants must accept the terms to proceed.

• Profile: Participants can set their name, pronouns, and avatar.

  • Option to generate anonymous animal-themed profiles. If enabled, participants will be randomly assigned a profile (e.g., Dog, Cat).
  • This image shows the participant's view of a "Set profile" stage.

• Info: Use this stage to provide information to participants.

• Survey: Add survey questions like free-text, checkboxes (yes/no), multiple choice, or scale questions.

• Ranking/Election: Allows participants to rank items (or other participants). If "Conduct an election" is selected, a winner will be computed from the rankings.

  • This image shows the participant's view of a "Ranking" stage among participants.

• Reveal: Combine Survey or Ranking/Election stages here. You can choose to reveal answers to the cohort. Make sure to inform participants if their answers will be visible to others.

• This image shows the participant's view of a "Reveal" stage. The results of a ranking (with election) are shown, as well as the results of a survey (with the responses of all participants).

• Payout: Displays the participant’s payout for the stage.

  • Participants can receive a fixed amount or a payout based on an Election outcome.

• Group Chat: Opens a chat for the cohort. Add LLM agents with the "Add mediator" button. Agents will have conversation context.

  • String Parsing: Use "If you want to say something, contribute as X. Otherwise, respond with an empty string."
  • JSON Parsing: Allows querying additional explanations from the model.

    INSTRUCTIONS:
    Fill out the following JSON response:
      1. Do you want to add a message to the chat? ("true" or false)
      2. If yes, what would you like to say?
      3. Why do you want to say that?
    
    EXAMPLE OUTPUT:
    {
      "shouldRespond": true,
      "response": "This is my response",
      "reasoning": "This is why I chose this response."
    }

• Transfer: A waiting stage where participants are transferred to a different cohort. We recommend creating a "Lobby" cohort for an experiment, and then transferring participants into breakout cohorts as needed.

  • This image shows the experimenter's view of an experiment. Participant Bear has reached the transfer stage, and have been waiting on that stage for less than a minute. By using the Transfer dropdown on the right, the experimenter can transfer the participant to other cohorts within the experiment.