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> All participants recruited via mechanical turk. That skews the demographic so much the study is basically unusable.
by 908B64B197 5y ago
> All participants recruited via mechanical turk.
That skews the demographic so much the study is basically unusable.
- sseagull 5y agoWhile I kind of agree, I am also sympathetic to the fact that finding study participants that aren't heavily skewed is very difficult, and would probably be prohibitively expensive to do for every single study.
- netizen-936824 5y ago
- 908B64B197 5y agoIn this case it's better to survey a sample that is skewed but in a known way (you can then address these biases in the paper) as opposed to skewed in an unknown way via mechanical turk (how many are pretending to be part of the demographic you targeted just because western academic surveys pay more?).