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A beginner’s guide and best practices for using crowdsourcing platforms for survey research: The case of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)

open access: yesJournal of Global Business Insights, 2021
Introduction Researchers around the globe are utilizing crowdsourcing tools to reach respondents for quantitative and qualitative research (Chambers & Nimon, 2019).
Cihan Cobanoglu   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Data quality in online human-subjects research: Comparisons between MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
With the proliferation of online data collection in human-subjects research, concerns have been raised over the presence of inattentive survey participants and non-human respondents (bots).
Benjamin D Douglas   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Incorporating Worker Perspectives into MTurk Annotation Practices for NLP

open access: yesProceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023
Current practices regarding data collection for natural language processing on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) often rely on a combination of studies on data quality and heuristics shared among NLP researchers. However, without considering the perspectives of MTurk workers, these approaches are susceptible to issues regarding workers' rights and poor ...
Huang, Olivia, Fleisig, Eve, Klein, Dan
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“Who are these people?” Evaluating the demographic characteristics and political preferences of MTurk survey respondents

open access: yesResearch & Politics, 2015
As Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has surged in popularity throughout political science, scholars have increasingly challenged the external validity of inferences made drawing upon MTurk samples.
Connor Huff, Dustin Tingley
doaj   +2 more sources

Common Concerns with MTurk as a Participant Pool: Evidence and Solutions

open access: yes, 2018
In this chapter, we outline the common concerns with MTurk as a participant pool, review the evidence for those concerns, and discuss solutions.
David Hauser   +2 more
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Why you shouldn’t trust data collected on MTurk

open access: yesBehavior Research Methods
Several prior studies have used advanced methodological techniques to demonstrate that there isan issue with the quality of data on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). The goal of the presentpreregistered project was to provide an accessible demonstration of this issue by showing thatpairs of items assessing clearly contradictory content (e.g., “I talk a
Cameron S Kay
openaire   +2 more sources

Crowdsourcing in Computing Education Research: Case Amazon MTurk [PDF]

open access: yesKoli Calling '20: Proceedings of the 20th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2020
Crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon MTurk provide access to a human workforce that can be given tasks to complete online for a fee. In this article, we review studies in computing education research (CER) that rely on crowdsourcing; we also describe our own experiences of using Amazon MTurk for a CER study.
Zavgorodniaia, Albina   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Evaluating CloudResearch’s Approved Group as a solution for problematic data quality on MTurk

open access: yesBehavior Research Methods, 2021
Maintaining data quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has always been a concern for researchers. These concerns have grown recently due to the bot crisis of 2018 and observations that past safeguards of data quality (e.g., approval ratings of 95 ...
David N. Hauser   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Daily Lives of Crowdsourced U.S. Respondents: A Time Use Comparison of MTurk, Prolific, and ATUS. [PDF]

open access: yesSociol Methodol
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and Prolific are popular online platforms for connecting academic researchers with respondents. A broad literature has sought to assess the extent to which these respondents are representative of the U.S.
Rinderknecht RG, Doan L, Sayer LC.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Comparing Online Surveys for Cybersecurity: SONA and MTurk [PDF]

open access: yesICST Transactions on Security and Safety, 2022
People have many accounts and usually need to create a password for each. They tend to create insecure passwords and re-use passwords, which can lead to compromised data. This research examines if there is a link between personality type and password security among a variety of participants in two groups of participants: SONA and MTurk.
Wagner, Anne   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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