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Measuring the Prevalence of Problematic Respondent Behaviors among MTurk, Campus, and Community Participants. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
The reliance on small samples and underpowered studies may undermine the replicability of scientific findings. Large sample sizes may be necessary to achieve adequate statistical power.
Elizabeth A Necka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic games on the internet: the effect of $1 stakes. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offer an unprecedented opportunity to run economic game experiments quickly and inexpensively. Using Mturk, we recruited 756 subjects and examined their behavior in four canonical economic games,
Ofra Amir   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Goal-Setting Behavior of Workers on Crowdsourcing Platforms: An Exploratory Study on MTurk and Prolific

open access: yesAAAI Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing, 2022
A wealth of evidence across several domains indicates that goal setting improves performance and learning by enabling individuals to commit their thoughts and actions to goal achievement.
Tahir Abbas, U. Gadiraju
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On the dependability and feasibility of layperson ratings of divergent thinking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A new system for subjective rating of responses to divergent thinking tasks was tested using raters recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. The rationale for the study was to determine if such raters could provide reliable (aka generalizable) ratings from
Hass, Richard W.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Differences in demographics and behaviors across two web-based survey platforms: Observations from a study of risk perceptions of heated tobacco products (HTPs)

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2023
With an escalating popularity of online surveys in behavioral research, it is critical to understand how different sources of participants can yield differing outcomes.
Akshika Sharma   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pervasive eHealth services a security and privacy risk awareness survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The human factor is often recognised as a major aspect of cyber-security research. Risk and situational perception are identified as key factors in the decision making process, often playing a lead role in the adoption of security mechanisms.
Bellekens, Xavier   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Geometric reasoning via internet crowdsourcing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The ability to interpret and reason about shapes is a peculiarly human capability that has proven difficult to reproduce algorithmically. So despite the fact that geometric modeling technology has made significant advances in the representation, display ...
Corney, J.R.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Systems Perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is becoming a prevalent source of quick and cost effective data for organizational research, but there are questions about the appropriateness of the platform for organizational research.
Melissa G. Keith   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Amazon’s MTurk: A Currently Underutilised Resource for Survey Researchers? [PDF]

open access: yesAccounting, Finance & Governance Review, 2021
A recent innovation in empirical academic research is the use of online labour markets as a source of data. One such market, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) has been used by studies published in high-quality accounting journals to source participants.
Michael Farrell, Breda Sweeney
openaire   +1 more source

Online crowdsourcing to study trauma and mental health symptoms in military populations: A case for Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform.

open access: yesPsychological Trauma, 2022
INTRODUCTION Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) appears to be a reliable resource for studying clinical populations and accessing hard-to-reach populations.
Shannon R. Forkus   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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