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Reusable Include and Exclude Groups

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
September 9, 2016

Reusable Include and Exclude Groups

Problem: You are running a longitudinal study and have identified 1000 workers who you want to allow to take your second phase studies. How do you easily group those workers for easy access. Or you want to exclude certain workers...

MTurk Panels on Your Own Requester Account

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
September 8, 2016

MTurk Panels on Your Own Requester Account

Studies with Panels  for just $0.15 – 0.75 / complete Now you can run Mechanical Turk studies using your own Requester account and specify over two dozen demographic traits!. The traits include gender, ethnicity, age, marital status and sexual orientation....

Survey Groups Ensure Unique Workers Across Multiple Concurrent Studies

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
August 23, 2016

Survey Groups Ensure Unique Workers Across Multiple Concurrent Studies

Have you ever wanted to run multiple studies simultaneously  and make sure that each worker only takes a single study? On MTurk, there is no simple way to block workers who completed one study from accepting and completing another study being run at the same time....until now.

Google Forms Integration with CloudResearch

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
July 26, 2016

Google Forms Integration with CloudResearch

Google Forms can be used to deliver a study with CloudResearch in a similar manner to other survey platforms (like Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey). In Google Forms set up your survey and then set up the secret completion code display: Click...

Demographic Consistency Over Time on Mechanical Turk

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
April 12, 2016

Demographic Consistency Over Time on Mechanical Turk

Ever wonder if workers are being honest with you when they answer a survey? Or, if you specify that your study should be taken only by women, whether some workers take the study even though they are not women?

New Safety Feature: Assignment Rejections Are Not Automated and Require Manual User Action

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
February 19, 2016

New Safety Feature: Assignment Rejections Are Not Automated and Require Manual User Action

Many researchers set up their studies to use the TurkPrime AutoApprove feature so that they do not need to manually approve worker assignments based on the secret code that workers enter. On occasion, a researcher may set up his study...

Anonymize Mechanical Turk Worker IDs

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
January 18, 2016

Anonymize Mechanical Turk Worker IDs

We recently launched a ground-breaking feature that helps protect Mechanical Turk worker identities. It has been reported in the literature that Mechanical Turk Worker IDs can be used to identify the worker. This is because Amazon uses the same value...

Block Multiple Responses From the Same IP Address

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
January 7, 2016

Block Multiple Responses From the Same IP Address

Our most popular feature request has been to allow the blocking of multiple workers from the same IP address.

HyperBatch – Run Batched HITs at Hyper Speeds

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
January 5, 2016

HyperBatch – Run Batched HITs at Hyper Speeds

You can now run your Amazon Mechanical Turk studies at Hyper speeds. We worked hard to make the experience identical to our classic MicroBatch option so that you simply launch your study and TurkPrime does all the heavy lifting for you.

WorkerID (And All MTurk Fields) Sent to Qualtrics

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
October 18, 2015

WorkerID (And All MTurk Fields) Sent to Qualtrics

CloudResearch can now automatically add Worker ID, HIT ID, and Assignment ID to data files, including CSV and SPSS files. These variables can be very useful when you want to match Workers across multiple data files. For example, in longitudinal studies,...

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