Social science research constantly evolves. In the early decades of the twentieth century, for example, social scientists often gathered data using archival records or conducting experiments and interviews with members...
Read More >When you link an Amazon Mechanical Turk account to TurkPrime, you can run studies on Mechanical Turk while using TurkPrime features meant to simplify setting up and managing studies. In...
Read More >In a recent research article (https://psyarxiv.com/jq589/), we reported that there are 250,810 MTurk workers worldwide who have completed at least one Human Intelligence Task (HIT) posted through the TurkPrime platform....
Read More >One feature of Mechanical Turk is the ability of researchers to give workers bonus payments. Bonuses may be issued for various reasons such as exemplary performance on a task, answering...
Read More >By now, most people have heard of the gig economy and have some idea of how it works. In the gig economy, people perform short-term jobs or tasks to earn...
Read More >A persistent cause of concern for researchers who conduct studies online is understanding what participants might be doing while completing their study. When participants are outside the lab, they cannot...
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