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Reverse Rejections
Jonathan Robinson, PhD

Reverse Rejections

Problem: How can a Requester who rejected an assignment in error undo his mistake? A rejected assignment affects the Worker negatively and will often impact the Requester with negative feedback which can damage the Requester’s online reputation which lowers Worker...

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Maximizing HIT Participation
Jonathan Robinson, PhD

Maximizing HIT Participation

Problem: How can you increase Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT Worker participation rates and speed completion of a HIT? This is particularly an issue with HITs that have a large number of required participants or have Qualifications that limit the number...

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Exclude Workers With One Click
Jonathan Robinson, PhD

Exclude Workers With One Click

Problem: Suppose you’re running a Mechanical Turk survey and need to exclude workers who took a previous survey. How can you quickly set this up. Some of the currently used solutions require following multiple steps to set things up and...

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IRB Template for Mechanical Turk and TurkPrime
Leib Litman, PhD

IRB Template for Mechanical Turk and TurkPrime

An IRB will generally request a description of how participants will be recruited, reimbursed and interacted with. Additionally IRBs always request information about how anonymity of the participants is protected. Members of the IRB board may not be familiar with Amazon Turk, and it may be helpful to include a brief description of MTurk in your IRB application.

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