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How to Conduct Better Research Studies with the MTurk Toolkit
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a microtask platform that was launched in 2005 to help computer scientists and tech companies solve problems that do not have computer-based solutions (Pontin, 2007)....
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Tapped Out or Barely Tapped: Debunking Common Issues With MTurk’s Participant Pool
Economists and psychologists spend a lot of time studying social dilemmas — situations in which people face a choice to act in self-interest or to cooperate with others. One particular...
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Does It Matter What Time of Day a Survey Is Sent Out?
If you have worked in behavioral research during the last decade, you know the Internet has changed things. Market researchers, pollsters, and academics have all turned to the Internet as...
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Anonymous and Unequal: The Gender Pay Gap on Amazon MTurk
Imagine an anonymous occupational environment. Employers and employees never meet. Employees cannot be selected based on gender, race, or any other personal characteristics. Discrimination in job selection is not possible....
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What Is Prime Panels? Breaking Down CloudResearch’s Panel Management Tool
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...
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