An Inconvenient Truth: Arbitrary Distinctions Between Organizational, Mechanical Turk, and Other Convenience Samples

By Richard N. Landers, Tara S. Behrend. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2015

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Social Psychology

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Why Do Adults Engage in Cyberbullying on Social Media? An Integration of Online Disinhibition and Deindividuation Effects with the Social Structure and Social Learning Model (2016, methodology): “…bias and increase both honesty and attention, we implemented the following procedural remedies taken from the literature (e.g., Goodman et al. 2013; Landers & Behrend 2015; Lowry et al. 2016; Lowry et al. 2013; Rouse 2015; Steelman et al. 2014) that have been shown to address these issues: (1) We…”
Inattentive Responding in MTurk and Other Online Samples (2015, background): “Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Shan Ran, 5057 Woodward Avenue, Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.”
"Cargo Cult" science in traditional organization and information systems survey research: A case for using nontraditional methods of data collection, including Mechanical Turk and online panels (2016, background): “They further quipped that “because most researchers are WEIRD and consult for WEIRD organizations, most of their research is WEIRD too” (Landers & Behrend, 2015, p. 159).”
Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater: Comparing Data Quality of Crowdsourcing, Online Panels, and Student Samples (2015, background): “Convenience Samples Composition In the focal article, Landers and Behrend (2015) argue that online sampling strategies such as crowdsourcing (e.g., Mechanical Turk) may reduce research overreliance onWEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) samples.”
The End of the (Research) World As We Know It? Understanding and Coping With Declining Response Rates to Mail Surveys (2019, background): “Landers and Behrend (2015) add that the simplistic labeling of sampling strategies as universally “good” or “bad” impedes the development of social sciences by labeling potentially legitimate data sources as categorically unacceptable.”
A Tale of Two Sample Sources: Do Results from Online Panel Data and Conventional Data Converge? (2018, background): “…argued that OPD are more generalizable than typical organizational samples precisely because they are more diverse and because demographic and other characteristics can be screened for in advance to compose samples with the desired characteristics (Bergman & Jean, 2016; Landers & Behrend, 2015).”
Systems Perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations (2017, background): “In many ways, this issue reﬂects a broader concern of using convenience sampling where organizational or community respondents self-select to respond to surveys or studies (Landers and Behrend, 2015).”
Consequences of knowledge hiding: The differential compensatory effects of guilt and shame (2018, background): “Samples generated via Mechanical Turk have been shown to yield similar results when compared to other convenience samples generated for organizational research (Landers & Behrend, 2015).”
The Relational Nature of Leadership Identity Construction: How and When It Influences Perceived Leadership and Decision-Making (2015, background): “…Mechanical Turk (MTurk; see Barger, Behrend, Sharek, & Sinar, 2011; Mason & Suri, 2012, and Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011 for descriptions; see Landers & Behrend, 2015 for advantages of online sampling),2 U.S. working adults completed an avatar video-based study about team decision-making…”
MTurk Research: Review and Recommendations (2020, background): “…enough that some journals have intermittently refused to accept manuscripts that utilized MTurk, and some journal editors and reviewers have summarily recommended rejecting manuscripts that used MTurk regardless of a study’s other positive features (Landers & Behrend, 2015; Walter et al., 2019).”