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Aaron Moss, PhD

Demographics of People on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Take a behind the scenes look at the Amazon Mturk worker pool. CloudResearch investigates turker trends by gender, age, and other key demographics.

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Leib Litman, PhD

Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond

Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond is a comprehensive resource for any researcher looking to source data from online platforms.

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Aaron Moss, PhD

Support for Graduate Students Impacted by COVID-19

To support academic researchers during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, CloudResearch is waiving service fees for graduate students until the end of May.

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Aaron Moss, PhD

Study: Amazon MTurk Remains a High-Quality Source of Research Participants

The popularity of Amazon's Mturk as a source of research participants has raised recent concerns about naivety. See how researchers can still utilize the platform.

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Tommy Roggina

Is Online Data Collection Affected by Time of Day Bias?

The speed of modern online data collection platforms introduces a new wrinkle for survey-based research: time of day bias. See how to control for it using CloudResearch.

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Cheskie Rosenzweig, MS

The Persistent Gender Pay Gap: How Wage Inequality Affects Anonymous Workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

While it seems like the gender pay gap would close in an anonymous, online environment, a study from CloudResearch sheds new light on wages and gender on Amazon MTurk.

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CloudResearch

An MTurk Alternative: Data Quality Analysis of Mturk vs Online Panels

A data quality analysis of Mturk and our Prime Panels tool. See how this alternative online research platform stacks up against Amazon's Mturk.

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Aaron Moss, PhD

Best Practices for Rotating Amazon Web Services Access Keys for CloudResearch Users

In this blog, we describe how to rotate API keys for security on Amazon Mechanical Turk.

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Aaron Moss, PhD

How Many Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Are There in 2019?

Amazon Mturk has become a go-to platform for researchers sourcing survey participants, but how many workers use it? See estimates from our recent study here

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Aaron Moss, PhD

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 extra questions in a study, or as a reward for...

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