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. More
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. More
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 small set of geolocations, leading some researchers to suspect bots as the source. Researchers raised More
