An MTurk Alternative: Data Quality Analysis of Mturk vs Online Panels
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...
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How to Award a Bonus to MTurk Workers Using CloudResearch
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...
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Understanding Turkers: How Do Gig Economy Workers Use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk?
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...
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How Do Most MTurk Workers Work?
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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How to Easily Run a Pilot Study on CloudResearch
Last month, we published a blog titled, “Five Things you Should Not be Doing in Online Data Collection.” Among the things we identified that you should not be doing was...
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Transfer Funds From One CloudResearch User to Another
Academic research is a collaborative endeavor. Faculty members work with post-docs, grad students, and undergrads. Sometimes one lab collaborates with another. During the course of such work, resources sometimes need...
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