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. Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical...
Online data quality is a huge deal and a threat to research validity. You need to know how much online survey fraud exists, how it's measured, and what you can do to avoid it.
CloudResearch has facilitated tens of thousands of studies with hundreds of thousands of participants and tens of millions of individual assignments. Here, we present five graphs that tell a story about MTurk over the last five years.
Starting November 1, 2021, CloudResearch will be retiring the Block Low-Quality Participants feature we created in 2020 and continuing with our CloudResearch Approved Participants option. In this blog, we explain why we’re making this change and what it means for researchers.
Have you ever been faced with having to toss 20-40 percent of your data? This can be nerve racking. There are several threats to data quality and the validity of online research. We're here to shed some light on these threats and what to do about them.
A few months into 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced global uncertainty. As we went into lockdown, we saw an opportunity to extend our study – what if we examined the development of paranoia as the pandemic unfolded? In a paper recently published in Nature Human Behaviour we tracked paranoia and belief-updating as the pandemic progressed – prior to lockdown, during lockdown, and into reopening.
