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Compared to more traditional research methods \u2014 lab-based experiments, field studies, ethnographic interviews, etc. \u2014 MTurk is exceptionally fast, making...","pubDate":"Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:58:00 GMT"},{"title":"Tips for Navigating the CloudResearch Dashboard","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/tips-for-navigating-the-cloudresearch-dashboard\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/tips-for-navigating-the-cloudresearch-dashboard\/","description":"Overview of CloudResearch Dashboard changes and navigation tips for improved user experience.","pubDate":"Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:15:00 GMT"},{"title":"Five Things You Should NOT Be Doing in Online Data Collection","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/five-things-you-should-not-be-doing-in-online-data-collection\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/five-things-you-should-not-be-doing-in-online-data-collection\/","description":"Three weeks ago, we published a blog explaining five things you should be doing in your online data collection. In this blog, we follow up with five things you should NOT be doing when collecting data on MTurk.","pubDate":"Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:26:00 GMT"},{"title":"Revisiting CloudResearch's Survey Group Feature","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/revisiting-cloudresearch-survey-group-feature\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/revisiting-cloudresearch-survey-group-feature\/","description":"What Is a Survey Group? Survey Groups are one of the most powerful and dynamic tools on CloudResearch for controlling which workers are eligible and ineligible for your study. A Survey Group is exactly what it sounds like: a collection...","pubDate":"Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Announcing the CloudResearch Suggestion Box","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/announcing-the-cloudresearch-suggestion-box\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/announcing-the-cloudresearch-suggestion-box\/","description":"A new year represents the opportunity to consider priorities, set goals, chart new courses of action, and decide how to move forward in the coming months. At CloudResearch, we're moving into 2019 looking for ways to expand the tools and...","pubDate":"Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:45:00 GMT"},{"title":"Five Things You Should Be Doing in Online Data Collection","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/five-things-you-should-be-doing-in-online-data-collection\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/five-things-you-should-be-doing-in-online-data-collection\/","description":"Researchers are responsible for being an expert, or at least knowledgeable, in several areas. There's the topic of your research, the methods common within your discipline, best practices for open science, and the mediums used to communicate about your work\u2014just to name a few. For many researchers, online data collection has been revolutionary, helping collect data faster and more affordably than ever before.","pubDate":"Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:45:00 GMT"},{"title":"Including and Excluding Participants From Studies Run Through CloudResearch: What, When and How","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/including-and-excluding-participants-from-studies-run-through-turkprime-what-when-and-how\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/including-and-excluding-participants-from-studies-run-through-turkprime-what-when-and-how\/","description":"In this blog, we explain everything you could ever want to know about including and excluding participants from studies while using CloudResearch. In last week's blog on longitudinal studies, we described our Include Workers feature, but this blog digs into the nitty-gritty and explains what our features are, when you might want to use them, and how they work.","pubDate":"Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:45:00 GMT"},{"title":"Running Longitudinal Studies on CloudResearch","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/running-longitudinal-studies-on-cloudresearch\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/running-longitudinal-studies-on-cloudresearch\/","description":"In this blog, we describe how to run a longitudinal study on MTurk, using CloudResearch. We also provide tips for maximizing worker participation and minimizing attrition.","pubDate":"Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:45:00 GMT"},{"title":"Understanding Geolocations and Their Connection to Data Quality","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/understanding-geolocations-and-their-connection-to-data-quality\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/understanding-geolocations-and-their-connection-to-data-quality\/","description":"In this blog, we outline the history of our Block Duplicate Geolocations tool, provide an overview of what geolocations are and the information they convey, and present the results of a study that examined the quality of data obtained from repeated geolocations that are not linked to server farms. We conclude by outlining the steps we are taking to change the default options on our Block Duplicate Geolocations feature.","pubDate":"Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:55:00 GMT"},{"title":"How to Gather Demographically-Representative Samples in Online Studies","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-gather-demographically-representative-samples-in-online-studies\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-gather-demographically-representative-samples-in-online-studies\/","description":"Most social science research relies on convenience sampling of participants, meaning few samples look like let alone represent the general population. For many research questions, convenience samples are not a problem. Yet, for other questions, being able to capture and represent the opinions of people from different groups is essential. Because most researchers do not routinely gather these kinds of samples, knowing where to find one when it's needed can be difficult.","pubDate":"Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:35:00 GMT"},{"title":"Recruiting Older Adults Online","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/recruiting-older-adults-online\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/recruiting-older-adults-online\/","description":"People of different ages vary greatly in their beliefs and behaviors. For example, a recent Pew report outlines wide generational gaps in people's opinions on several political issues like presidential job approval, perceptions of racism, views on immigration, and political ideology (Pew Research Center, 2018). Furthermore, some issues, like the use of Medicare, depend on age and therefore are more relevant to older adults than younger ones.","pubDate":"Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:33:00 GMT"},{"title":"Creating Compensation HITs for Mechanical Turk Workers","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/compensating-mechanical-turk-workers\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/compensating-mechanical-turk-workers\/","description":"At CloudResearch, we advocate for requesters to treat workers fairly when posting HITs on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Workers are, after all, the people who make the research possible. Sometimes situations arise in which an MTurk worker is unable to receive payment, despite having completed a survey. Below are two common scenarios in which a worker may not be paid, despite completing a survey:","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Running Dyadic Studies on Mechanical Turk Using CloudResearch","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/running-dyadic-studies-on-mechanical-turk-using-cloudresearch\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/running-dyadic-studies-on-mechanical-turk-using-cloudresearch\/","description":"Studying pairs of people (e.g., married couples, friends, coworkers, etc) is becoming increasingly common in the social and behavioral sciences. Online participant populations, such as Mechanical Turk and other online panels, can potentially serve as a rich source of dyadic...","pubDate":"Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:01:00 GMT"},{"title":"Moving Beyond Bots: MTurk as a Source of High Quality Data","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/moving-beyond-bots-mturk-as-a-source-of-high-quality-data\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/moving-beyond-bots-mturk-as-a-source-of-high-quality-data\/","description":"About a month ago, we published After the Bot Scare blog on workers providing bad quality data on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. This month, we followed up with our \u201cfarmers\u201d to assess the effectiveness of the tools we created to deal with the problem. In this blog, we present data from our follow-up study and evidence to suggest our tools are working.","pubDate":"Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:17:00 GMT"},{"title":"How to Obtain an Online National Sample Stratified by Wealth","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-obtain-an-online-national-sample-stratified-by-wealth\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-obtain-an-online-national-sample-stratified-by-wealth\/","description":"A Case Study From a Recent JESP Article A new study appearing in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology suggests Americans strongly believe in economic mobility because they fail to appreciate how vast wealth inequality really is. In this blog,...","pubDate":"Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:34:00 GMT"},{"title":"The Universal Exclude List: A Tool for Blocking Bad Workers","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/the-universal-exclude-list-a-tool-for-blocking-bad-workers\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/the-universal-exclude-list-a-tool-for-blocking-bad-workers\/","description":"By now, even casual users of MTurk have heard about recent concerns of \u201cbots\u201d or low quality data. We've written about the topic here and laid out evidence that suggests \u201cbots\u201d are actually foreign workers using tools to obscure their true location (here). Perhaps most importantly, we've created two tools to help keep these workers out of your studies. In this blog, we introduce a third tool: the Universal Exclude List.","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:04:00 GMT"},{"title":"After the Bot Scare: Understanding What's Been Happening With Data Collection on MTurk and How to Stop It","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/after-the-bot-scare-understanding-whats-been-happening-with-data-collection-on-mturk-and-how-to-stop-it\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/after-the-bot-scare-understanding-whats-been-happening-with-data-collection-on-mturk-and-how-to-stop-it\/","description":"In this blog, we review recent concerns about bots, along with general data quality issues, on Mechanical Turk and report the results of a study we conducted to investigate the problem.","pubDate":"Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:07:00 GMT"},{"title":"CloudResearch Tools to Help Combat Responses from Suspicious Geolocations","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/cloudresearch-tools-to-help-combat-responses-from-suspicious-geolocations\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/cloudresearch-tools-to-help-combat-responses-from-suspicious-geolocations\/","description":"Last week, the research community was struck with concern that \u201cbots\u201d were contaminating data collection on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk). We wrote about the issue and conducted our own preliminary investigation into the problem using the CloudResearch database. In this blog, we introduce two new tools CloudResearch is launching to help researchers combat suspicious activity on MTurk and reiterate some of the important takeaways from this conversation so far.","pubDate":"Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:51:00 GMT"},{"title":"Concerns About Bots on Mechanical Turk: Problems and Solutions","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/concerns-about-bots-on-mechanical-turk-problems-and-solutions\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/concerns-about-bots-on-mechanical-turk-problems-and-solutions\/","description":"When researchers collect data online, it's natural to be concerned about data quality. Participants aren't in the lab, so researchers can't see who is taking their survey, what those participants are doing while answering questions, or whether participants are who they say they are. Not knowing is unsettling.","pubDate":"Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:46:00 GMT"},{"title":"MicroBatch Is Now a Pro Feature","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/microbatch-is-now-a-pro-feature\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/microbatch-is-now-a-pro-feature\/","description":"CloudResearch is announcing a change in our pricing for the MicroBatch feature. MicroBatch is now included as a Pro feature, with a fee of 2 cents + 5% per complete. This will also provide users with access to all other...","pubDate":"Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:27:00 GMT"},{"title":"Conducting Research: How Online Research Tools Can Help","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/conducting-research-how-online-research-tools-can-help\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/conducting-research-how-online-research-tools-can-help\/","description":"When researchers learn about conducting research online, it can sometimes be difficult to understand quite how all the tools that are available can actually be applied to a project. This post is about how specific research ideas can be carried...","pubDate":"Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:34:00 GMT"},{"title":"New Feature: Exclude Highly Active Workers","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/new-feature-exclude-highly-active-workers\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/new-feature-exclude-highly-active-workers\/","description":"Some workers on MTurk are extremely active, and take the majority of posted HITs. This can lead to many issues, some of which are outlined in our previous post. Although MTurk has over 100,000 workers who take surveys each year,...","pubDate":"Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:30:00 GMT"},{"title":"Best Recruitment Practices: Working With Issues of Non-Naivete on MTurk","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/best-recruitment-practices-working-with-issues-of-non-naivete-on-mturk\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/best-recruitment-practices-working-with-issues-of-non-naivete-on-mturk\/","description":"It is important to consider how many highly experienced workers there are on Mechanical Turk. As discussed in previous posts, there is a population pool of active workers in the thousands, but this is far from exhaustible. A small group...","pubDate":"Fri, 08 Dec 2017 20:59:00 GMT"},{"title":"Are MTurk Workers Who They Say They Are?","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/are-mturk-workers-who-they-say-they-are\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/are-mturk-workers-who-they-say-they-are\/","description":"The internet has the reputation of being a place where people can hide in anonymity, and present as being very different people than who they actually are. Is this a problem on Mechanical Turk? Is the self-reported information provided by...","pubDate":"Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:19:00 GMT"},{"title":"Strengths and Limitations of Mechanical Turk","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/strengths-and-limitations-of-mechanical-turk\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/strengths-and-limitations-of-mechanical-turk\/","description":"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...","pubDate":"Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:12:00 GMT"},{"title":"Select MTurk Workers by Big Five Personality Types","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/new-feature-select-mturk-workers-by-big-five-personality-types\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/new-feature-select-mturk-workers-by-big-five-personality-types\/","description":"Run Studies Targeting Specific Big Five Personality Types CloudResearch introduces a new Big Five personality types qualification: Now social science researchers\u00a0can run studies targeted to the Big Five: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness, and Neuroticism. Each personality type can be specified...","pubDate":"Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:33:00 GMT"},{"title":"Restarts Now Available When Using HyperBatch","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/new-feature-restarts-now-available-when-using-hyperbatch\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/new-feature-restarts-now-available-when-using-hyperbatch\/","description":"\u201cRestart HIT\u201d Using HyperBatch The CloudResearch \u201cRestart\u201d feature (which Restarts HITs that have become sluggish; see our blog post on Restarts to see all the benefits of this feature) can now be used in conjunction with HyperBatch. This was a...","pubDate":"Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:18:00 GMT"},{"title":"Verified US Region Targeting","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/verified-us-region-targeting\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/verified-us-region-targeting\/","description":"Many researchers wish to target participants from specific states or regions of the United States like the Northeast or the West. The problem they often encounter is that using MTurk\u2019s Geographic Qualification to specify a particular state is often not...","pubDate":"Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:22:00 GMT"},{"title":"Dynamic Secret Completion Codes for SurveyMonkey and Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo)","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/dynamic-secret-completion-codes-for-surveymonkey\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/dynamic-secret-completion-codes-for-surveymonkey\/","description":"CloudResearch now supports dynamic completion codes for SurveyMonkey and Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo) studies. Dynamic codes ensure each MTurk worker receives a unique completion code, eliminating code sharing and enabling auto-approval...","pubDate":"Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:04:00 GMT"},{"title":"How to Create a Universal Exclude Worker List","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-create-a-universal-exclude-worker-list\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-create-a-universal-exclude-worker-list\/","description":"Problem: Requesters may observe that some workers, even those with high Approval ratings, may not perform to their expectations on a study. Sometimes this may result in rejecting their work which affects the Worker approval rating. But, often the work...","pubDate":"Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:41:00 GMT"},{"title":"Reusable Include and Exclude Groups","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/reusable-include-and-exclude-groups\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/reusable-include-and-exclude-groups\/","description":"Problem: You are running a longitudinal study and have identified 1000 workers who you want to allow to take your second phase studies. How do you easily group those workers for easy access. Or you want to exclude certain workers...","pubDate":"Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:36:00 GMT"},{"title":"MTurk Panels on Your Own Requester Account","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/mturk-panels-on-your-own-requester-account\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/mturk-panels-on-your-own-requester-account\/","description":"Studies with Panels \u00a0for just $0.15 \u2013 0.75 \/ complete Now you can run Mechanical Turk studies using your own Requester account and specify over two dozen demographic traits!. The traits include gender, ethnicity, age, marital status and sexual orientation....","pubDate":"Thu, 08 Sep 2016 22:44:00 GMT"},{"title":"Survey Groups Ensure Unique Workers Across Multiple Concurrent Studies","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/survey-groups-ensure-unique-workers-across-multiple-concurrent-studies\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/survey-groups-ensure-unique-workers-across-multiple-concurrent-studies\/","description":"Have you ever wanted to run multiple studies\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0\u00a0and make sure that each worker only takes a single study? On MTurk, there is no simple way to block workers who completed one study from accepting and completing another study being run at the same time....until now.","pubDate":"Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:41:00 GMT"},{"title":"Google Forms Integration with CloudResearch","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/google-forms-integration-with-cloudresearch\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/google-forms-integration-with-cloudresearch\/","description":"Google Forms can be used to deliver a study with CloudResearch in a similar manner to other survey platforms (like Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey). In Google Forms set up your survey and then set up the secret completion code display: Click...","pubDate":"Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:02:00 GMT"},{"title":"Demographic Consistency Over Time on Mechanical Turk","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/demographic-consistency\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/demographic-consistency\/","description":"Ever wonder if workers are being honest with you when they answer a survey? Or, if you specify that your study should be taken only by women, whether some workers take the study even though they are not women?","pubDate":"Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:15:00 GMT"},{"title":"New Safety Feature: Assignment Rejections Are Not Automated and Require Manual User Action","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/new-safety-feature-assignment-rejections-are-not-automated-and-require-manual-user-action\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/new-safety-feature-assignment-rejections-are-not-automated-and-require-manual-user-action\/","description":"Many researchers set up their studies to use the TurkPrime AutoApprove feature so that they do not need to manually approve worker assignments based on the secret code that workers enter. On occasion, a researcher may set up his study...","pubDate":"Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:39:00 GMT"},{"title":"Anonymize Mechanical Turk Worker IDs","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/anonymize-mechanical-turk-worker-ids\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/anonymize-mechanical-turk-worker-ids\/","description":"We recently launched a ground-breaking feature that helps protect Mechanical Turk worker identities. It has been reported in the literature that Mechanical Turk Worker IDs can be used to identify the worker. This is because Amazon uses the same value...","pubDate":"Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:32:00 GMT"},{"title":"Block Multiple Responses From the Same IP Address","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/block-multiple-responses-from-the-same-ip-address\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/block-multiple-responses-from-the-same-ip-address\/","description":"Our most popular feature request has been to allow the blocking of multiple workers from the same IP address.","pubDate":"Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:36:00 GMT"},{"title":"HyperBatch \u2013 Run Batched HITs at Hyper Speeds","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/hyperbatch-run-batched-hits-at-hyper-speeds\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/hyperbatch-run-batched-hits-at-hyper-speeds\/","description":"You can now run your Amazon Mechanical Turk studies at Hyper speeds. We worked hard to make the experience identical to our classic MicroBatch option so that you simply launch your study and TurkPrime does all the heavy lifting for you.","pubDate":"Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:24:00 GMT"},{"title":"WorkerID (And All MTurk Fields) Sent to Qualtrics","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/workerid-and-all-mturk-fields-sent-to-qualtrics\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/workerid-and-all-mturk-fields-sent-to-qualtrics\/","description":"CloudResearch can now automatically add Worker ID, HIT ID, and Assignment ID to data files, including CSV and SPSS files. These variables can be very useful when you want to match Workers across multiple data files.\u00a0For example, in longitudinal studies,...","pubDate":"Sun, 18 Oct 2015 05:47:00 GMT"},{"title":"Easily Copy Past HITs","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/easily-copy-past-hits\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/easily-copy-past-hits\/","description":"TurkPrime has just released a Copy feature which makes duplicating past TurkPrime HITs simple and fast. To copy the settings from an old survey to a new one, follow these simple steps: Go to the HIT you want to copy...","pubDate":"Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:09:00 GMT"},{"title":"Our Micro-Batching Feature Will Improve the Quality of Your Data","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/our-micro-batching-feature-will-improve-the-quality-of-your-data\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/our-micro-batching-feature-will-improve-the-quality-of-your-data\/","description":"We have deployed a micro-batching feature which allows Requesters to break up their studies into smaller segments, and to include time intervals between the segments. We developed this feature to increase sample representation. This feature can also save 50% in MTurk fees.","pubDate":"Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:57:00 GMT"},{"title":"Bounce and Completion Rate","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/bounce-and-completion-rate\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/bounce-and-completion-rate\/","description":"In the latest release of CloudResearch.com we added many new features and fixes among them 2 additional metrics for every survey: Bounce Rate Completion Rate The Bounce Rate is the percentage of Amazon workers who previewed your survey but decided...","pubDate":"Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:14:00 GMT"},{"title":"Reverse Rejections","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/reverse-rejections\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/reverse-rejections\/","description":"Problem: How can a Requester who rejected an assignment in error undo his mistake? A rejected assignment affects the Worker negatively and will often impact the Requester with negative feedback which can damage the Requester\u2019s online reputation which lowers Worker...","pubDate":"Wed, 13 May 2015 17:16:00 GMT"},{"title":"Maximizing HIT Participation","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/maximizing-hit-participation\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/maximizing-hit-participation\/","description":"Problem: How can you increase Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT Worker participation rates and speed completion of a HIT? This is particularly an issue with HITs that have a large number of required participants or have Qualifications that limit the number...","pubDate":"Wed, 13 May 2015 17:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Qualtrics Studies Run on Mechanical Turk Can Be Integrated With CloudResearch","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/qualtrics-and-other-platforms-mechanical-turk-integration-with-cloudresearch\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/qualtrics-and-other-platforms-mechanical-turk-integration-with-cloudresearch\/","description":"Run Qualtrics Surveys on MTurk using CloudResearch Running Qualtrics surveys on CloudResearch streamlines several major pain-points researchers using MTurk have dealt with: Researchers can setup a dynamic secret\u00a0code so that each Worker receives a unique code upon completing the study....","pubDate":"Fri, 08 May 2015 18:15:00 GMT"},{"title":"Exclude Workers With One Click","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/exclude-workers-with-one-click\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/exclude-workers-with-one-click\/","description":"Problem: Suppose you\u2019re running a Mechanical Turk survey and need to exclude workers who took a previous survey. How can you quickly set this up. Some of the currently used solutions require following multiple steps to set things up and...","pubDate":"Thu, 07 May 2015 19:57:00 GMT"},{"title":"Longitudinal and Follow Up Surveys on Mechanical Turk","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/longitudinal-and-follow-up-surveys-on-mechanical-turk\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/longitudinal-and-follow-up-surveys-on-mechanical-turk\/","description":"Problem: Suppose you need to run a survey on Mechanical Turk and follow up with the same workers a week, month or year later. A few issues come up: How can I limit the follow up surveys to survey takers...","pubDate":"Thu, 07 May 2015 18:04:00 GMT"},{"title":"Finding More Mechanical Turk Workers Faster with CloudResearch Restart HIT","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/finding-more-mechanical-turk-workers-faster-with-turkprime-restart-hit\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/finding-more-mechanical-turk-workers-faster-with-turkprime-restart-hit\/","description":"Problem: Suppose you need to run a HIT with 1000 Workers. Or a HIT that is only open to Workers who have an approval Rating of 95% or more and have completed 500 HITs or more. Although when you launched...","pubDate":"Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:47:00 GMT"},{"title":"Creating Mechanical Turk Custom Panels With CloudResearch Worker Groups","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/creating-mechanical-turk-custom-panels-with-turkprime-com-worker-groups\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/creating-mechanical-turk-custom-panels-with-turkprime-com-worker-groups\/","description":"Problem: Suppose you need to run a group of HITs open only to participants who are women under 50. You previously ran a HIT and know the Worker IDs that you want to reach, but have no way to email...","pubDate":"Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:29:00 GMT"},{"title":"IRB Template for Mechanical Turk and TurkPrime","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/irb-template-for-mechanical-turk-and-turk-prime\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/irb-template-for-mechanical-turk-and-turk-prime\/","description":"An IRB will generally request a description of how participants will be recruited, reimbursed and interacted with. Additionally IRBs always request information about how anonymity of the participants is protected. Members of the IRB board may not be familiar with Amazon Turk, and it may be helpful to include a brief description of MTurk in your IRB application.","pubDate":"Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:34:00 GMT"},{"title":"The New New Demographics on Mechanical Turk: Is there Still a Gender Gap?","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/the-new-new-demographics-on-mechanical-turk-is-there-still-a-gender-gap\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/the-new-new-demographics-on-mechanical-turk-is-there-still-a-gender-gap\/","description":"In this blog, we report on the demographics of Mechanical Turk workers by reviewing 75 studies conducted with US-based Workers in 2013 and 2014. From a total of 32,595 Workers, we found 15,324 were female (47%).","pubDate":"Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:56:00 GMT"},{"title":"A Simple Formula for Predicting the Time to Complete a Study on Mechanical Turk","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/a-simple-formula-for-predicting-the-time-to-complete-a-study-on-mechanical-turk\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/a-simple-formula-for-predicting-the-time-to-complete-a-study-on-mechanical-turk\/","description":"We describe a general formula for predicting the time it takes Workers to complete survey studies on MTurk. The average Worker takes 10.3 seconds to answer a single question. This means that a study with 60 questions should take approximately 10 minutes.","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:28:00 GMT"},{"title":"How to Minimize Dropout Rate on Mechanical Turk","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-minimize-dropout-rate-on-mechanical-turk\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-minimize-dropout-rate-on-mechanical-turk\/","description":"It is generally thought that pay rate does not affect data quality on Mechanical Turk. For example (Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011) showed that whether Workers are paid 5 cents or one dollar for a survey study, the internal reliability of the surveys does not change. They did show however that fewer Workers will take the surveys that pay less. We recently replicated these findings for both US and India-based Workers (Litman et al, 2014).","pubDate":"Sun, 08 Mar 2015 15:04:00 GMT"},{"title":"Determining Completion Rate and Dropout Rate on Mechanical Turk","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/determining-completion-rate-and-dropout-rate-on-mechanical-turk\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/determining-completion-rate-and-dropout-rate-on-mechanical-turk\/","description":"What is the completion rate and dropout rate? Dropout rate is defined as the percentage of participants who start taking a study but do not complete it. Dropout rate is sometimes referred to as attrition rate, and is the opposite...","pubDate":"Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:43:00 GMT"},{"title":"Why Use CloudResearch Panels?","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/why-use-turkprime-panels\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/why-use-turkprime-panels\/","description":"MTurk Requesters are often interested in studying specific groups of people. For example, a researcher may be interested in men over 40, Republicans, people who are concerned about the cleanliness of sponges, or cancer survivors. CloudResearch Panels utilizes various techniques...","pubDate":"Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:50:00 GMT"},{"title":"System Qualification Enhancements \u2013 US State Qualifications","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/system-qualification-enhancements-us-state-qualifications\/","guid":"https:\/\/www.cloudresearch.com\/resources\/blog\/system-qualification-enhancements-us-state-qualifications\/","description":"Amazon just announced that their Worker Qualification now supports US State locations. It is currently available through their API and is also available through their Web Interface. It is great to see that Amazon is adding features to their API;...","pubDate":"Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:48:00 GMT"}]}}