How Scoutela verifies and matches studies
Our goal is to make published criteria easier to compare—not to predict or influence a provider’s final decision.
Provider verification
Scoutela records the provider’s official domain, checks that the outbound application resolves to the expected organization, reviews visible contact and privacy information, and flags material domain or status changes for moderation. Verification confirms identity signals, not the quality or outcome of every study.
Study normalization
Published payout, age range, gender eligibility, countries, occupations, format, duration and exclusions are stored as separate fields. Missing requirements remain unknown rather than being inferred.
Match score
Age, country, gender and occupation are checked separately against published requirements. Either age boundary is sufficient to check an age restriction. Remote participation does not remove a country restriction. A known mismatch produces a zero score before preferences are considered. A score is shown only when at least two criterion groups can be checked and no unreviewed exclusion remains: each confirmed group contributes 25 percentage points. Missing information contributes no points. Location and format preferences are explained separately and do not override requirements. Free-text exclusions are shown for review; we do not infer sensitive facts from them.
Explanation rules
Explanations are generated by deterministic rules from the same comparison used for the score, using only stored criteria and profile facts supplied by the member. They must not invent requirements or claim guaranteed eligibility, selection, scheduling or compensation.