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 TurkPrime Users
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...
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How Many Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Are There in 2019?
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....
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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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