By Leib Litman, PhD, Zohn Rosen, PhD, Cheskie Rosenzweig, MS, Aaron Moss, PhD, Adam Dietrich, & Jonathan Robinson, PhD Background Lately, there’s been considerable debate over the accuracy of presidential...
By Leib Litman, PhD & Aaron Moss, PhD MTurk Surveys Compared to Everyday Life In the world of human subjects research, Institutional Review Boards (IRB) often conduct a cost-benefit analysis...
By Leib Litman, PhD, Cheskie Rosenzweig, MS, & Aaron Moss, PhD Highlights We describe new solutions that dramatically improve the quality of data collected on Mechanical TurkWe give a brief...
By Sarah L. Weinberger-Litman, PhD, Zohn Rosen, PhD, & Leib Litman, PhD How the COVID-19 Outbreak Started in the United States Early March marked a historic turning point in the...
By Josef Edelman, MS, Cheskie Rosenzweig, MS, & Aaron Moss, PhD Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a microtask platform that was launched in 2005 to help computer scientists and tech...
By Aaron Moss, PhD & Leib Litman, PhD When requesters post tasks on Mechanical Turk (MTurk), workers complete those tasks on a first come, first-served basis. This method of task...
By Leib Litman, PhD & Zohn Rosen, PhD Data collection online has become standard practice even for major institutions like the CDC, but unless care is taken to ensure subjects...
