Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a dynamic, ever-changing platform. Each month new people sign up as “requesters” and “workers” and people who once used the platform on a regular basis sometimes stop. This means that any report about MTurk—from how much people make, to data quality, to demographics—is subject to change with time.
To successfully conduct online studies, researchers need to understand the differences between participant platforms, how to maintain data quality, how to recruit the right participants, and how to most efficiently carry out complex projects. The new book Conducting Online Research...
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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 been Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). The popularity of MTurk among researchers from several disciplines has caused concern that MTurk may be oversaturated.
Economists and psychologists spend a lot of time studying social dilemmas — situations in which people face a choice to act in self-interest or to cooperate with others. One particular social dilemma is the tragedy of the commons. In the tragedy of the commons, people must decide whether to use a shared resource in a way that maximizes self-interest or balances self-interest with the collective interest. An example is commercial fishing.
