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SAGE 10-Year Impact Awards Honor Two APS Articles
Two 2011 APS journal articles exploring the rise of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and the risk of accepting false-positive findings have received SAGE Publishing’s third annual 10-Year Impact Awards.
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MTurk Workers Are More Depressed—But “Bots” and Demographic Differences Inflate the Data
MTurk participants have been found to experience major depression at higher rates than the general population, but these studies may require more stringent data-filtering procedures.
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Student Notebook: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Suggestions for Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
While MTurk can be beneficial for gathering a diverse sample in an abbreviated length of time, certain drawbacks should be considered when using this crowdsourcing service.
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These Aren’t the Bots You’re Looking For
This summer, researchers in psychological science and other fields noticed a sudden increase in low-quality responses to surveys and other experimental measures posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Many of the responses originated from a
