Tips For Requesters On Mechanical Turk

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Successfully publishing an academic survey on Mturk can be an exhilarating experience. Watching the participants submit and monitoring the p...

New attrition considerations when publishing longitudinal academic studies on Mturk. @amazonmturk is weeding out "nefarious participa...

If you are not a coder or if you are not an experienced requester on Mturk, this is going to cause huge problems for you. Read the Mturk Blo...

Last week the academic community was shocked when a researcher noticed the GPS data from one of their studies on Qualtrics had multiple subm...

Many researchers who are new to online studies ask us about using attention checks in their studies. Our view is that they can be helpful to...

We know that if a worker is blocked, Amazon sends a nasty gram to the worker telling them their account is in jeopardy. It is not a good p...

The custom qualification fee list keeps expanding. If you need to run a study of 1000 married participants with a bachelor's degree, Ama...

Amazon has changed their policy and will now start allowing some countries outside of the US to use the platform again. https://blog.mturk...

It seems like every announcement that Amazon makes on the Mechanical Turk blog costs requesters money. The newest dig into your pocket is...

Due to an Amazon Mechanical Turk temporary system outage that has now lasted well over two days, we are unable to publish any of the work t...

Earlier this month reports started coming in that Amazon had lifted the ban on new international workers. Multiple threads have been posted ...

When Amazon changed their pricing structure in July, a lot of the focus was on the huge commission increase directed towards Academic reque...

We have seen a moderate decrease in requests because of the increased commission structure from Amazon in July. We want to assure everyon...

Hi all, As most of you are aware, Amazon increased fees yesterday. For academic requesters this is a pretty big deal because Amazon singl...

Amazon sent out emails to all requesters last night detailing their new fee structure.  Although in the original blog post “Bringing Future...

http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com/blog/2015/05/bringing-future-innovation-to-mechanical-turk.html Quoted from the Amazon Mechanical Turk b...

Taken from Reddit so validity is questionable, but these are posts from the latest round of workers given the mysterious Amazon Master Quali...

A few frequently asked questions about publishing academic studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk with Mturk Data. 1. How long does it take ...

 EDIT: Within 48 hours, Amazon pulled down this advertisement.  Yesterday workers were greeted by an annoying new advertisement at the t...

Amazon is pretty clear on how to reject workers using both the GUI and the API. When rejecting work in the GUI, Amazon forces requesters to ...

Spamgirl from Turkernation ran a small study on the effectiveness of master workers. I thought is was pretty interesting and asked her if I...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk workers protest: 'I am a human being, not an algorithm'  Really good article on TheGuardian about ...

Amazon finally accepted a few international workers for their prized masters qualification yesterday. This is both good and bad. It is great...

It is disappointing to see that this is the way workers are viewed by some requesters. With her research focused on sarcasm, I would hope t...