ABSTRACT
A large proportion of individuals using the Internet are the kinds of people who are not typically sampled in standard psychological research: successful, active, and middle-aged. It is further supposed that individuals using the Internet would be attracted by the novelty of participating in a new type of experiment using Internet technology. Some empirical data suggested that such an effect due to self-selection in computerized surveys might be observed. The general term psychotelemetry refers to the remote collection of psychometric data. This choice of terminology follows the accepted use of biotelemetry, which refers to the remote collection of biometric data. The pilot experiment examines the possibility of testing individuals remotely, using a computer testing program called PsyLog. The responses to individuals on a set of power letter series items were collected and analyzed using several forms of data analyses to examine the individual response patterns and their relation to age.
