Is Online Data Collection Affected by Time of Day Bias?
Behavioral researchers from both corporations and universities have turned to the Internet as a fast and efficient way to find research participants. The Internet allows researchers to administer surveys, polls,...
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The Persistent Gender Pay Gap: How Wage Inequality Affects Anonymous Workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
The American workplace has changed a lot since the 1960s, but at least one thing remains the same: men often earn more money than women. This gender wage gap has...
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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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Best Practices for Rotating Amazon Web Services Access Keys for CloudResearch Users
When you link an Amazon Mechanical Turk account to CloudResearch, you can run studies on Mechanical Turk while using CloudResearch features meant to simplify setting up and managing studies. In...
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How Many Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Are There in 2019?
In a recent research article, 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. More...
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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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