I participated in two linguistics studies in as many days, both at UBC's Speech in Context lab.

In the first one, I had to listen to sets of two voices and rate on a scale of 1 to 6 how similar they sounded.

In the second one, I had to listen to people saying sentences, with white noise/static overlaid, and type out what I thought I heard. Next, I had to listen to the sentences, without the static, and rate how much of an accent I perceived. Each spoken sentence was sometimes accompanied by a photo, sometimes not. After that they tested my response times as they flashed a name on the screen and I had to push a button depending on whether it was Western ("white") or Asian; I did the same with words that had a positive versus negative connotation. Then the two sets (white vs. Asian; positive vs. negative) were mixed in various configurations. Finally, I had to state how much I agreed with certain statements about Asians Canadians versus European Canadians.

I got paid $10 for each study.