"You can spend hours at a coffee shop polling 50 random people or bug everyone you know, but you'll be getting a skewed population" Not to rain on your impress

"You can spend hours at a coffee shop polling 50 random people or bug everyone you know, but you'll be getting a skewed population" Not to rain on your impressive parade, but I'd consider the type of person that wants or needs to use MTurk to be a pretty skewed population too, just in a different way. Not saying it's not valuable, it may well be, and certainly more honest than asking friends - but I would expect a fairly low-income or bored-teen demographic. Actually, an interesting meta-survey might be to survey the MTurk population itself, see what they think, their incomes, political beliefs etc; might be an interesting use of this very service. But enough nit-picking - congratulations on a great idea, swiftly executed.