The way researchers find subjects has changed dramatically over the last century. Techniques and standard practices have shifted from an original emphasis on self-study and...
Social science research constantly evolves. In the early decades of the twentieth century, for example, social scientists often gathered data using archival records or conducting experiments and interviews with members of the community. Then, in the 60s and 70s, academic...
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When you link an Amazon Mechanical Turk account to CloudResearch, you can run studies on Mechanical Turk while using CloudResearch features meant to simplify setting up and managing studies. In order for CloudResearch to communicate with MTurk, you must create an Amazon Web Services account and give CloudResearch permission to interact with your Amazon account. If you have been through this process, you may remember creating an “Identity Access Management” (IAM) user and entering the secret key and secret access keys generated for this user into CloudResearch.
In a recent research article, we reported that there are 250,810 MTurk workers worldwide who have completed at least one Human Intelligence Task (HIT) posted through the TurkPrime platform. More than 226,500 of these workers are based in the US.
One feature of Mechanical Turk is the ability of researchers to give workers bonus payments. Bonuses may be issued for various reasons such as exemplary performance on a task, answering extra questions in a study, or as a reward for...
