Researchers are rushing to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

edward222 · Dec 15, 2015

Researchers are rushing to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Should they?

Scholars have turned to MTurk as a convenient and cheap source of subjects for experiments, surveys and other tasks in a range of disciplines including political science. Surveys with research firms typically cost thousands of dollars, while a study on MTurk can cost as little as $100.

Despite increasing scholarly attention, academic use of MTurk remains controversial. Many people legitimately ask, “Who are these people who sit at their computers and do surveys for 50 cents?” The implication: They must be weird and, therefore, any study using them is flawed. In a Monkey Cage post titled, “Don’t trust the Turk,” Andrew Gelman linked to Dan Kahan’s blog where he has written extensively on whether to trust samples derived from MTurk (also see here, and here).
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xxeliza321xx · Dec 16, 2015

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Researchers are rushing to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Should they?
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Interesting. I was considering eventually using Mturk to run surveys myself for school, since I'm a Women and Gender Studies major and Political Science minor.

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