Tips For Requesters On Mechanical Turk

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Moving to a new server

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 We will be moving to a new server in the next month so the website might be down for a bit. 
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Academic Survey Publishing

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Successfully publishing an academic survey on Mturk can be an exhilarating experience. Watching the participants submit and monitoring the p...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

New attrition considerations when publishing longitudinal studies on Mturk

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New attrition considerations when publishing longitudinal academic studies on Mturk. @amazonmturk is weeding out "nefarious participa...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The depreciation of the Mturk API

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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...
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Saturday, August 11, 2018

The BOT problem on Mturk

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Last week the academic community was shocked when a researcher noticed the GPS data from one of their studies on Qualtrics had multiple subm...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Using Attention Checks in Your Surveys May Harm Data Quality

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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...
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Friday, February 17, 2017

HITs not getting completed? You may be blocked!

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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...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

The fee list keeps growing

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The custom qualification fee list keeps expanding. If you need to run a study of 1000 married participants with a bachelor's degree, Ama...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Amazon Now Allows International Requesters Again

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Amazon has changed their policy and will now start allowing some countries outside of the US to use the platform again. https://blog.mturk...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The Future of Innovation - More money out of your pocket

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It seems like every announcement that Amazon makes on the Mechanical Turk blog costs requesters money. The newest dig into your pocket is...
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Due to an Amazon Mechanical Turk temporary system outage

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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...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

New International Participants are Being Accepted

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Earlier this month reports started coming in that Amazon had lifted the ban on new international workers. Multiple threads have been posted ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

How to Pay Less than 20%, Minimum Pricing on Mechanical Turk

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When Amazon changed their pricing structure in July, a lot of the focus was on the huge commission increase directed towards Academic reque...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Status after #Mturkgate

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We have seen a moderate decrease in requests because of the increased commission structure from Amazon in July. We want to assure everyon...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Moving Forward with Mechanical Turk - To Participants

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Hi all, As most of you are aware, Amazon increased fees yesterday. For academic requesters this is a pretty big deal because Amazon singl...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Amazon Deals a Devastating Blow to Academic Requesters and Workers

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Amazon sent out emails to all requesters last night detailing their new fee structure.  Although in the original blog post “Bringing Future...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

How to destroy Amazon Mechanical Turk 101

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http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com/blog/2015/05/bringing-future-innovation-to-mechanical-turk.html Quoted from the Amazon Mechanical Turk b...
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Thursday, May 7, 2015

If you needed more proof that Amazon Master Quaification is useless and arbitrary....

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Taken from Reddit so validity is questionable, but these are posts from the latest round of workers given the mysterious Amazon Master Quali...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

FAQ for Mturk Data International Amazon Mechanical Turk Survey Publishing

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A few frequently asked questions about publishing academic studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk with Mturk Data. 1. How long does it take ...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Do NOT Waste Money on Amazon Promoted HITs

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 EDIT: Within 48 hours, Amazon pulled down this advertisement.  Yesterday workers were greeted by an annoying new advertisement at the t...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

The "X" Rejection and Feedback on HITs

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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 ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Some Staticstical Evidence On The Poor Quality Of Masters

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Spamgirl from Turkernation ran a small study on the effectiveness of master workers. I thought is was pretty interesting and asked her if I...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Amazon's Mechanical Turk workers protest: 'I am a human being, not an algorithm'

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Amazon's Mechanical Turk workers protest: 'I am a human being, not an algorithm'  Really good article on TheGuardian about ...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Amazon Accepted a Few International Masters

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Amazon finally accepted a few international workers for their prized masters qualification yesterday. This is both good and bad. It is great...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Turkers are People, not Labrats or Turkeys

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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...
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