Clare Harrop is assistant professor of allied health sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Clare Harrop
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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When autism researcher Clare Harrop tried to recruit survey participants over social media, she received hundreds of fraudulent responses. But there are ways researchers can protect themselves from similar experiences.

How to safeguard online data collection against fraud
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Some restricted and repetitive behaviors may have hidden benefits for people with autism, so scientists should work to find a happy medium between acceptance and change.

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