I get really tired of this knee-jerk "X is bullshit" response without even bothering to see whether researchers are aware of potential issues. A simple search o

I get really tired of this knee-jerk "X is bullshit" response without even bothering to see whether researchers are aware of potential issues. A simple search on Google Scholar would have shown that they are, and want to figure out what the methodological implications are. https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=mechanical+turk https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=mechanical+turk It's just as easy to argue - when you're not citing any evidence - that online respondents are more likely to be truthful because they're anonymous, and therefore their answer doesn't have an impact on their social reputation.