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Mechanical Turk Demographic Trends During the Year of COVID-19
Last month, people in the U.S. marked the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. For most of 2020, circumstances on the ground were changing faster than many forms of...
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How to Conduct an Online Pricing Survey
Imagine you’re on the beach with a friend. It’s hot and sunny. After a few hours you’re really thirsty, and just as you’re thinking ‘I could use a drink’ your...
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How Has COVID-19 Affected MTurk Worker Demographics?
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed nearly everything. An important change for social scientists is that most, if not all, human subjects research has moved online. Given the massive disruptions to...
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4 Strategies to Improve Participant Retention In Online Longitudinal Studies
Whenever researchers conduct a longitudinal study, one concern takes precedence over almost all others: retaining participants. This is especially true for many studies conducted in the era of COVID-19, as...
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Pay Justice in a Newly Developing Economy
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic initiated an unprecedented shift in the American workforce. In a matter of weeks a significant portion of the labor force shifted to working online, a...
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Comparing Data Quality on CloudResearch to Prolific: a Reply to Prolific’s Recent False Claims
When it comes to online research, few topics loom as large as data quality. With recent well-documented cases of problematic respondents and fraud (Moss & Litman, 2018), data quality is...
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