"In 2011, psychological researchers Michael Buhrmester, Tracy Kwang, and APS Fellow Sam Gosling published a paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science titled “Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: A New Source of Inexpensive, Yet High-Quality, Data?” The paper has been cited more than 2,300 times, according to Google Scholar.
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But over the last few years, psychological scientists have begun viewing MTurk with a more critical eye. Many have been concerned about the unique characteristics of the MTurk sample, the appropriate amount to compensate MTurk subjects, and the recent fee increases that Amazon has levied on researchers who use the service.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2016/march-16/under-the-hood-of-mechanical-turk.html
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2016/march-16/under-the-hood-of-mechanical-turk.html
Author: Andy DeSoto
Date: March 2016
Date: March 2016