Validity and Mechanical Turk: An assessment of exclusion methods and interactive experiments

By Kyle A. Thomas, Scott Clifford. Computers in Human Behavior, 2017

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Climate of hope or doom and gloom? Testing the climate change hope vs. fear communications debate through online videos (2021, background): “Its benefits include the ability to rapidly and affordably obtain a large number of participants with selected demographic characteristics (Thomas and Clifford 2017).”
Data quality of platforms and panels for online behavioral research (2021, unknown): “Previous research on online data quality focused on different attributes of quality among different types of audiences (for a comprehensive review see Thomas & Clifford, 2017).”
Language and Consumer Dishonesty: A Self-Diagnosticity Theory (2021, result): “Similar to other data sources, online panels can suffer from participants’ lack of attention and poor understanding of study requirements (Paolacci, Chandler, and Ipeirotis 2010; Thomas and Clifford 2017).”
MTurk Research: Review and Recommendations (2020, background): “While more is preferable, a minimum of two such checks should be employed (Ramsey, Thompson, McKenzie, & Rosenbaum, 2016; Thomas & Clifford, 2017).”