Study title

The German Internet Panel (GIP) is an infrastructure project. The GIP serves to collect data about individual attitudes and preferences which are relevant for political and economic decision-making processes.The questionnaire contains numerous experimental variations in the survey instruments. For more information, see the study documentation. Topics: Vignette experiment on the fair decision on the granting of bank loans or financial products to private individuals and acceptance of the type of decision; Vignette experiment on the fair decision on the early release of prisoners and acceptance of the type of decision; Vignette experiment on the fair decision on the hiring of new employees or the dismissal of employees in the probationary period and acceptance of the type of decision; Vignette experiment on the fair decision of the reduction of unemployment benefits or the awarding of support measures of job seekers and acceptance of the type of decision; ownership of smartphone, mobile phone, desktop computer/PC or laptop, tablet, eBook reader or none of the above; account with user name and password at selected providers (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Xing, at none of these providers); awareness of the following terms: Artificial intelligence, computer algorithms, machine learning, recommendation services, targeted/personalised advertising, none of these terms; knowledge of the purposes for which artificial intelligence technologies are used (advertising on social networks, curation of news on social networks, recommendations in online shops, recommendations on video streaming sites, ranking of results in search engines, responses from intelligent assistants, suggestions about potential partners on dating platforms, content of Wikipedia articles, website of a local restaurant, for other purposes, none of these purposes); concern about privacy in general; agreement with various statements about sharing data (I don´t mind sharing personal information...