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Strengths and Limitations of Mechanical Turk

Leib Litman, PhD
November 21, 2017

Strengths and Limitations of Mechanical Turk

Hundreds of academic papers are published each year using data collected through Mechanical Turk. Researchers have gravitated to Mechanical Turk primarily because it provides high quality data quickly and affordably. However, Mechanical Turk has strengths and weaknesses as a platform...

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Select MTurk Workers by Big Five Personality Types

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
October 31, 2017

Select MTurk Workers by Big Five Personality Types

Run Studies Targeting Specific Big Five Personality Types CloudResearch introduces a new Big Five personality types qualification: Now social science researchers can run studies targeted to the Big Five: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness, and Neuroticism. Each personality type can be specified...

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Restarts Now Available When Using HyperBatch

Sam Krumholtz
February 28, 2017

Restarts Now Available When Using HyperBatch

“Restart HIT” Using HyperBatch The CloudResearch “Restart” feature (which Restarts HITs that have become sluggish; see our blog post on Restarts to see all the benefits of this feature) can now be used in conjunction with HyperBatch. This was a...

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Verified US Region Targeting

CloudResearch
December 2, 2016

Verified US Region Targeting

Many researchers wish to target participants from specific states or regions of the United States like the Northeast or the West. The problem they often encounter is that using MTurk’s Geographic Qualification to specify a particular state is often not...

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Dynamic Secret Completion Codes for SurveyMonkey and Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo)

CloudResearch
December 2, 2016

Dynamic Secret Completion Codes for SurveyMonkey and Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo)

CloudResearch now supports dynamic completion codes for SurveyMonkey and Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo) studies. Dynamic codes ensure each MTurk worker receives a unique completion code, eliminating code sharing and enabling auto-approval...

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How to Create a Universal Exclude Worker List

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
September 9, 2016

How to Create a Universal Exclude Worker List

Problem: Requesters may observe that some workers, even those with high Approval ratings, may not perform to their expectations on a study. Sometimes this may result in rejecting their work which affects the Worker approval rating. But, often the work...

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Reusable Include and Exclude Groups

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
September 9, 2016

Reusable Include and Exclude Groups

Problem: You are running a longitudinal study and have identified 1000 workers who you want to allow to take your second phase studies. How do you easily group those workers for easy access. Or you want to exclude certain workers...

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MTurk Panels on Your Own Requester Account

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
September 8, 2016

MTurk Panels on Your Own Requester Account

Studies with Panels  for just $0.15 – 0.75 / complete Now you can run Mechanical Turk studies using your own Requester account and specify over two dozen demographic traits!. The traits include gender, ethnicity, age, marital status and sexual orientation....

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Survey Groups Ensure Unique Workers Across Multiple Concurrent Studies

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
August 23, 2016

Survey Groups Ensure Unique Workers Across Multiple Concurrent Studies

Have you ever wanted to run multiple studies simultaneously  and make sure that each worker only takes a single study? On MTurk, there is no simple way to block workers who completed one study from accepting and completing another study being run at the same time....until now.

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Google Forms Integration with CloudResearch

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
July 26, 2016

Google Forms Integration with CloudResearch

Google Forms can be used to deliver a study with CloudResearch in a similar manner to other survey platforms (like Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey). In Google Forms set up your survey and then set up the secret completion code display: Click...

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