Attentive Turkers: MTurk participants perform better on online attention checks than do subject pool participants

Participant attentiveness is a concern for many researchers using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Although studies comparing the attentiveness of participants on MTurk versus traditional subject pool samples have provided mixed support for this concern, attention check questions and other methods...

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Published in:	Behavior research methods Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 400 - 407
Main Authors:	Hauser, David J., Schwarz, Norbert
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.03.2016 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Attention Behavioral Science and Psychology Cognitive Psychology College students Comparative analysis Data Collection - methods Female Humans Instructions Internet Learning Male Manipulation Psychology Researcher subject relations Social research Social Sciences Surveys and Questionnaires Participant attentiveness MTurk Instructional manipulation checks College students
ISSN:	1554-3528, 1554-3528
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