Amazon's Mechanical Turk: A Comment

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Crowdsourcing research: Data collection with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (2018, background): “…and anonymity may factor into any type of digital data collection, although the payment aspect of MTurk work may serve to heighten the problem and researchers are concerned that individuals from outside of the U.S. present themselves as citizens in order to earn payments for HITs (Ford, 2017).”
The Influence of Consumer–Brand Relationship on the Personalized Advertising Privacy Calculus in Social Media (2021, background): “However, some researchers have expressed concerns about speeders and “Super Turkers,” which comprise a small percentage of MTurk participants who participate in a high number of studies, potentially skewing results (e.g., Ford, 2017).”