Beyond the “Narrow Data Base”: Another Convenience Sample for Experimental Research

By Cindy D. Kam, Jennifer Wilking, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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“Who are these people?” Evaluating the demographic characteristics and political preferences of MTurk survey respondents (2015, methodology): “(2012) reach this conclusion by comparing MTurk to convenience samples from prior work (Berinsky and Kinder, 2006; Kam et al., 2007) and the American National Election 2008– 2009 Panel Study.”
Name Recognition and Candidate Support (2013, unknown): “External validity refers to the extent to which causal findings can be generalized to other people, other settings, and other operationalizations (Campbell and Stanley 1963; for discussions, see Druck-man and Kam 2011; Kam, Wilking, and Zechmeister 2007).”
The Generalizability of Survey Experiments* (2015, background): “Second, a sample of university staff completed the experiment in-person at individual laptop stations, and were compensated $15 (a la Kam et al. 2007; Redlawsk et al. 2010).”
Beyond Binary Labels: Political Ideology Prediction of Twitter Users (2017, background): “However, these data sets are not representative samples of the entire population (Cohen and Ruths, 2013) and do not accurately reflect the variety of political attitudes and engagement (Kam et al., 2007).”
User generated content presenting brands on social media increases young adults’ purchase intention (2019, background): “Even though student samples are often criticized for their lack of generalizability to the broad public (Kam, Wilking, and Zechmeister 2007), in our case a student sample is adequate and even necessary as they are the main target group of the examined advertising practice.”
Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk (2012, unknown): “2007) Adult sample (Kam et al. 2007) Adult samples (Berinsky and Kinder 2006)”
Cross-Sample Comparisons and External Validity (2014, background): “Third, we have seen the recent expansion of local convenience samples of adults (Kam et al. 2007) as well as adult convenience samples – such as MTurk – recruited over the Internet (Berinsky et al. 2012; Iyengar 2011), but scholars have only begun to identify the conditions under which such samples…”