// RESEARCHERS
Screening applicants
The screening dashboard gives you everything you need to review applicants and make informed selection decisions — without seeing any personal identifying information.
The screening dashboard
When participants apply to your study, their applications appear in your screening dashboard. This dashboard is designed to support quick, informed review.
What you see for each applicant
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Participant | Pseudonym and identicon (anonymous identity) |
| Region | Country and region |
| Eligibility | Eligible or Not eligible — based on quiz responses and profile match |
| Reliability | Track record from previous studies on BIOME (completion history, consistency) |
| Applied | Date of application |
| Actions | Approve, Waitlist, or Deny |
Eligibility vs reliability
These are two different signals:
Eligibility is study-specific. It reflects whether the participant's profile data and quiz responses match your inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Reliability is platform-wide. It reflects the participant's completion rate and consistency across all previous studies on BIOME. A participant with high reliability has a track record of completing studies and meeting compliance thresholds.
Slot counting
Only approved participants count toward your filled slots. Applied, eligible-but-unapproved, and waitlisted participants do not consume slots. If your study has 100 slots and you have approved 23 participants, the display reads "23/100 slots filled."
Actions
| Action | Effect |
|---|---|
| Approve | Participant is accepted into the study and consumes a slot |
| Waitlist | Participant is placed on standby and notified if a spot opens |
| Deny | Participant is not selected for this study |
When you click a participant's pseudonym, a screening card drops down showing their demographic data, device capability, sample comfort, language fluency, completion rate, and study history. This data is only visible to you and only for participants who have applied to your study. You never see their real name, email, phone, or personal contact information.