Mask Wearing Is Not Just About Political Party: Regional Infection-Rate Density Plays a Big Role in Who Is Wearing a Mask, and This Has Important Implications for Survey Sampling
The coronavirus pandemic has created massive social upheaval. Beyond the health and economic consequences, the day-to-day behaviors of billions of people have been altered. And, the end is currently not...
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Best Practices That Can Affect Data Quality on MTurk
Of late, researchers have reported a decrease in data quality on Mechanical Turk (MTurk). To combat the issue, we recently developed some data quality solutions, which are described in detail...
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What Is It Like to Participate in Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk?
In the world of human subjects research, Institutional Review Boards (IRB) often conduct a cost-benefit analysis to assess whether a study is ethical. A universal standard applied in these assessments...
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New Solutions Dramatically Improve Research Data Quality on MTurk
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a microtask platform that has been used for social science research for nearly a decade. During this time,
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Surveying the First Quarantined Community in the United States: Lessons Learned About Psychology and Public Health
Early March marked a historic turning point in the United States. Despite pockets of outbreak on the West Coast and a clear acceleration of infection across Western Europe, most Americans...
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The Superworker Sampling Bias on Mechanical Turk
When requesters post tasks on Mechanical Turk (MTurk), workers complete those tasks on a first come, first-served basis. This method of task distribution has important implications for research including the...
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