Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk

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Although Mechanical Turk has recently become popular among social scientists as a source of experimental data, doubts may linger about the quality of data provided by subjects recruited from online labor markets. We address these potential concerns by presenting new demographic data about the Mechan...

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Published in:	Judgment and Decision Making
Main Authors:	Gabriele Paolacci, Jesse Chandler, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2010-08-01
Subjects:	experimentation online researchNAKeywords
Online Access:	http://journal.sjdm.org/10/10630a/jdm10630a.pdf

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