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Strengths and Limitations of Mechanical Turk

Posted by Leib Litman on Nov 20, 2017 11:12:00 PM

Hundreds of academic papers are published each year using data collected through Mechanical Turk. Researchers have gravitated to Mechanical Turk primarily because it provides high quality data quickly and affordably. However, Mechanical Turk has strengths and weaknesses as a platform for data collection. While Mechanical Turk has revolutionized data collection, it is by no means a perfect platform. Some of the major strengths and limitations of MTurk are summarized below.

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Google Forms Integration with TurkPrime

Posted by Jonathan Robinson on Jul 26, 2016 3:02:00 PM

Google Forms can be used to deliver a study with TurkPrime in a similar manner to other survey platforms (like Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey).

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Topics: google form mechanical turk, google forms, mechanical turk, mturk, secret code, secret key, survey, turkprime

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