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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How to Easily Run a Pilot Study on CloudResearch
Last month, we published a blog titled, “Five Things You Should Not Be Doing in Online Data Collection.” Among the things we identified that you should not be doing was...
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Transfer Funds From One CloudResearch User to Another
Academic research is a collaborative endeavor. Faculty members work with post-docs, grad students, and undergrads. Sometimes one lab collaborates with another. During the course of such work, resources sometimes need...
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Spread Your Data Collection Over Days or Weeks With MicroBatch
One reason Amazon Mechanical Turk has become so popular among researchers is the speed with which data can be collected. Compared to more traditional research methods — lab-based experiments, field...
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Tips for Navigating the CloudResearch Dashboard
In this blog, we highlight some subtle and not so subtle aspects of the CloudResearch Dashboard you can use to make navigation and completing study-related tasks easier. Use Tags to...
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