If a writer is not capable of writing a particular order, then he must admit it to the student and give the student the ability to find another writer. ... Honesty and admission of writer limitations should count more than vested interests
Exactly like
THIS?
For projects that are heavy on stats, I always let my clients know that I just pay someone who is a stats expert for that rather than struggling through it myself, and probably doing it much less well. (Post #13)
Projects of a given length and relative difficulty with statistical data analyses always cost more than projects of the same length and relative difficulty that don't require data analyses. If my clients choose to order projects from me for which I use a stats specialist only for the statistical work, I don't make a dime on the part that the specialist provides for me; I simply add on whatever the specialist charges me. Furthermore, I obtain a price for that task from the specialist and communicate it to my client before the client makes his or her decision about ordering the project.
Any writer who says he does not make any money from the referral should look at himself and the mirror and admit the truth to himself before trying to convince others he is just doing both sides "a favor".
It's not about doing "favors," much less "convincing" anybody about anything. Frankly, my regular clients have absolutely no desire to go back to the whole process of trying to find another good, legitimate writer, especially my regular clients who found me only after first having gotten ripped off by -- or after having received low-quality work from -- my many illegitimate competitors. In fact, much more often than not, when a client initially proposes a quantitative-analysis-based research topic, I explain that, if they want to order the project from me, the options are: (1) To have my stats specialist do (only) the stats, or (2) To let me come up with a suitable qualitative-analysis-based research topic or a suitable literature-review-based topic. (My clients also have the option of ordering their projects elsewhere; but this isn't an option that they need me to present or explain, because it's patently obvious.)
Typically, when it's the client who originally came up with the idea for the research design, they simply allow me to provide an alternate research design that doesn't require any statistical data analysis. Usually, they contact me before anything has actually been submitted for approval; so, I just provide an initial proposal for a project that I can write in its entirety. On the relatively rare occasion that they're already locked into something requiring statistics, they're fine with paying for exactly what my stats specialist charges me for that work, no more and no less. New prospective clients who don't yet know my work often go elsewhere for those projects and thank me for my honesty. Regular clients who already know my work almost always choose to have me write everything (including the narrative portion of the data analysis section) based on the numerical data analysis provided by my stats specialist.