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Using MTurk for personal surveys and expecting to get good and meaningful results from it is just all kinds of wrong. I do hope there isn't "serious" research t
by ris 8y ago
Using MTurk for personal surveys and expecting to get good and meaningful results from it is just all kinds of wrong. I do hope there isn't "serious" research that's being done this way.
- techbio 8y agoThis article [1] was linked from a Wired article earlier that touched on the same question. To editorialize, undergraduate students are not considered in it to be a much better sample than properly run MTurkers. [1] http://journal.sjdm.org/10/10630a/jdm10630a.html http://journal.sjdm.org/10/10630a/jdm10630a.html
- jjeaff 8y agoYou would be surprised how many serious studies you will find mturk as a data source of you dig into them. It's usually buried and sometimes I think they likely omit that little fact all together.
- your-nanny 8y agowhat evidence do you have to support this attitude?
- flingo 8y agoIf I had to guess as to his reasoning, it's because Mech Turk is artificial AI. You wouldn't survey an AI and expect to get anything meaningful.