Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Paolacci, Gabriele
• Chandler, Jesse

Titel

Inside the Turk: Understanding Mechanical Turk as a Participant Pool

Ist Teil von

• Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society, 2014-06, Vol.23 (3), p.184-188

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online labor market created by Amazon, has recently become popular among social scientists as a source of survey and experimental data. The workers who populate this market have been assessed on dimensions that are universally relevant to understanding whether, why, and when they should be recruited as research participants. We discuss the characteristics of MTurk as a participant pool for psychology and other social sciences, highlighting the traits of the MTurk samples, why people become MTurk workers and research participants, and how data quality on MTurk compares to that from other pools and depends on controllable and uncontrollable factors.