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Aaron Moss, PhD
July 2, 2020

The Superworker Sampling Bias on Mechanical Turk

Explore the numbers behind superworkers on Amazon mturk and learn how these professional survey respondents can bias your behavioral research sample.

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Leib Litman, PhD
July 1, 2020

No, Americans Are Not Gargling Bleach: How Bad Survey Data Inflated Estimates in the Latest CDC Report – And How to Prevent This From Happening in the Future

A recent CDC report made the alarming claim that 39% of Americans engaged in high-risk behavior to avoid COVID. A new study from CloudResearch questions these claims.

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Aaron Moss, PhD
June 12, 2020

Demographics of People on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Take a behind the scenes look at the Amazon Mturk worker pool. CloudResearch investigates turker trends by gender, age, and other key demographics.

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Leib Litman, PhD
May 26, 2020

Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond

Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond is a comprehensive resource for any researcher looking to source data from online platforms.

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Aaron Moss, PhD
April 2, 2020

Support for Graduate Students Impacted by COVID-19

To support academic researchers during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, CloudResearch is waiving service fees for graduate students until the end of May.

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Aaron Moss, PhD
April 1, 2020

Study: Amazon MTurk Remains a High-Quality Source of Research Participants

The popularity of Amazon’s Mturk as a source of research participants has raised recent concerns about naivety. See how researchers can still utilize the platform.

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Tommy Roggina
January 24, 2020

Is Online Data Collection Affected by Time of Day Bias?

The speed of modern online data collection platforms introduces a new wrinkle for survey-based research: time of day bias. See how to control for it using CloudResearch.

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Cheskie Rosenzweig, MS
January 20, 2020

The Persistent Gender Pay Gap: How Wage Inequality Affects Anonymous Workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

While it seems like the gender pay gap would close in an anonymous, online environment, a study from CloudResearch sheds new light on wages and gender on Amazon MTurk.

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CloudResearch
September 24, 2019

An MTurk Alternative: Data Quality Analysis of Mturk vs Online Panels

A data quality analysis of Mturk and our Prime Panels tool. See how this alternative online research platform stacks up against Amazon’s Mturk.

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Aaron Moss, PhD
July 2, 2019

Best Practices for Rotating Amazon Web Services Access Keys for CloudResearch Users

In this blog, we describe how to rotate API keys for security on Amazon Mechanical Turk.

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