Study: Amazon MTurk Remains a High-Quality Source of Research Participants
During the last decade, academic researchers have increasingly turned to the Internet as a fast and efficient way to recruit research participants. The most commonly used platform, by far, has...
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Support for Graduate Students Impacted by COVID-19
Global concern over COVID-19 is rapidly reshaping our society, our economy, and our basic human interactions. As a company committed to academic research, we understand the life-altering consequences of pausing...
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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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