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Are MTurk Workers Who They Say They Are?
Leib Litman, PhD

Are MTurk Workers Who They Say They Are?

The internet has the reputation of being a place where people can hide in anonymity, and present as being very different people than who they actually are. Is this a problem on Mechanical Turk? Is the self-reported information provided by...

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Strengths and Limitations of Mechanical Turk
Leib Litman, PhD

Strengths and Limitations of Mechanical Turk

Hundreds of academic papers are published each year using data collected through Mechanical Turk. Researchers have gravitated to Mechanical Turk primarily because it provides high quality data quickly and affordably. However, Mechanical Turk has strengths and weaknesses as a platform...

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Select MTurk Workers by Big Five Personality Types
Jonathan Robinson, PhD

Select MTurk Workers by Big Five Personality Types

Run Studies Targeting Specific Big Five Personality Types CloudResearch introduces a new Big Five personality types qualification: Now social science researchers can run studies targeted to the Big Five: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness, and Neuroticism. Each personality type can be specified...

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Restarts Now Available When Using HyperBatch
Sam Krumholtz

Restarts Now Available When Using HyperBatch

“Restart HIT” Using HyperBatch The CloudResearch “Restart” feature (which Restarts HITs that have become sluggish; see our blog post on Restarts to see all the benefits of this feature) can now be used in conjunction with HyperBatch. This was a...

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Verified US Region Targeting
CloudResearch

Verified US Region Targeting

Many researchers wish to target participants from specific states or regions of the United States like the Northeast or the West. The problem they often encounter is that using MTurk’s Geographic Qualification to specify a particular state is often not...

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How to Create a Universal Exclude Worker List
Jonathan Robinson, PhD

How to Create a Universal Exclude Worker List

Problem: Requesters may observe that some workers, even those with high Approval ratings, may not perform to their expectations on a study. Sometimes this may result in rejecting their work which affects the Worker approval rating. But, often the work...

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Reusable Include and Exclude Groups
Jonathan Robinson, PhD

Reusable Include and Exclude Groups

Problem: You are running a longitudinal study and have identified 1000 workers who you want to allow to take your second phase studies. How do you easily group those workers for easy access. Or you want to exclude certain workers...

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MTurk Panels on Your Own Requester Account
Jonathan Robinson, PhD

MTurk Panels on Your Own Requester Account

Studies with Panels  for just $0.15 – 0.75 / complete Now you can run Mechanical Turk studies using your own Requester account and specify over two dozen demographic traits!. The traits include gender, ethnicity, age, marital status and sexual orientation....

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