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Demographic Consistency Over Time on Mechanical Turk

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
April 12, 2016

Demographic Consistency Over Time on Mechanical Turk

Ever wonder if workers are being honest with you when they answer a survey? Or, if you specify that your study should be taken only by women, whether some workers take the study even though they are not women?

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New Safety Feature: Assignment Rejections Are Not Automated and Require Manual User Action

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
February 19, 2016

New Safety Feature: Assignment Rejections Are Not Automated and Require Manual User Action

Many researchers set up their studies to use the TurkPrime AutoApprove feature so that they do not need to manually approve worker assignments based on the secret code that workers enter. On occasion, a researcher may set up his study...

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Anonymize Mechanical Turk Worker IDs

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
January 18, 2016

Anonymize Mechanical Turk Worker IDs

We recently launched a ground-breaking feature that helps protect Mechanical Turk worker identities. It has been reported in the literature that Mechanical Turk Worker IDs can be used to identify the worker. This is because Amazon uses the same value...

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Block Multiple Responses From the Same IP Address

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
January 7, 2016

Block Multiple Responses From the Same IP Address

Our most popular feature request has been to allow the blocking of multiple workers from the same IP address.

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HyperBatch – Run Batched HITs at Hyper Speeds

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
January 5, 2016

HyperBatch – Run Batched HITs at Hyper Speeds

You can now run your Amazon Mechanical Turk studies at Hyper speeds. We worked hard to make the experience identical to our classic MicroBatch option so that you simply launch your study and TurkPrime does all the heavy lifting for you.

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WorkerID (And All MTurk Fields) Sent to Qualtrics

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
October 18, 2015

WorkerID (And All MTurk Fields) Sent to Qualtrics

CloudResearch can now automatically add Worker ID, HIT ID, and Assignment ID to data files, including CSV and SPSS files. These variables can be very useful when you want to match Workers across multiple data files. For example, in longitudinal studies,...

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Easily Copy Past HITs

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
August 25, 2015

Easily Copy Past HITs

TurkPrime has just released a Copy feature which makes duplicating past TurkPrime HITs simple and fast. To copy the settings from an old survey to a new one, follow these simple steps: Go to the HIT you want to copy...

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Our Micro-Batching Feature Will Improve the Quality of Your Data

CloudResearch
June 29, 2015

Our Micro-Batching Feature Will Improve the Quality of Your Data

We have deployed a micro-batching feature which allows Requesters to break up their studies into smaller segments, and to include time intervals between the segments. We developed this feature to increase sample representation. This feature can also save 50% in MTurk fees.

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Bounce and Completion Rate

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
June 8, 2015

Bounce and Completion Rate

In the latest release of CloudResearch.com we added many new features and fixes among them 2 additional metrics for every survey: Bounce Rate Completion Rate The Bounce Rate is the percentage of Amazon workers who previewed your survey but decided...

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Association for Psychological Science Symposium

Leib Litman, PhD
May 21, 2015

Association for Psychological Science Symposium

Please join us this Friday, May 21st at 1pm at our APS symposium in New York City. We will be presenting talks on TurkPrime and how to make the most of Mechanical Turk.

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