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My other concern going forward is if we continue to use MTurk for testing, our sample may become increasingly biased after having seen this survey posted in the first place.

Independent study on OpenID awareness using Mechanical Turk | FactoryCity 2008

Many HITs could be reasonably turned into GWAPs with some clever twists and almost wanted to ask you if you had an interest in setting up a GWAP service where companies could format HITs according to semi-proven game styles and you provide the centralized back-end/player pool - ala MTurk.

Work and the Internet Luis von Ahn 2010

The switching cost is not zero - every new MTurk task has a learning curve that costs the Turker money because they are less effective at the start, they must search for and discover tasks that are reasonable, etc.

Work and the Internet Luis von Ahn 2010

For example, MTurk does not have a rating system of requesters, nor an arbitration board when a requester denies payment.

Work and the Internet Luis von Ahn 2010

I have been experimenting with using MTurk for really boring but vital seo tasks with some decent success.

Web 2.0 + Mturk = Awesome Luis von Ahn 2009

Amazon says that MTurk now has 200,000 workers from 100 different countries, but it doesn't keep track of past figures.

Selling Expertise On the Internet For Extra Cash 2009

It has come to our attention that Kindle users are seeking Kindle customer support by asking these questions through the MTurk HIT NowNow Research Question for $1695 Weekly Reward.

Kindle NowNow won’t answer technical support questions – Details « Kindle Review – Kindle 3 Review, iPad Review 2008

To participate in the MTurk image analysis effort, go here.

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The researchers then turned to Amazon. com's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a site that brings together people who need a task done with people seeking work.

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That is, the MTurk workers could distinguish people with high credit scores from people with low credit scores based solely on the photographs.

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