Who’s in Your Sample? More Issues with Bots, Fraudulent Respondents, and Inattention for Mturk Than Convenience Sampling

Bots, fraudulent, and inattentive responders are prevalent on crowdsourcing platforms and threaten data quality. Using multiple prevention and detection strategies, we found far fewer problematic responses in a convenience sample compared to using MTurk, suggesting researchers need to carefully consider the consequences of their recruitment method for data quality.