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Easily Copy Past HITs

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
August 25, 2015

Easily Copy Past HITs

TurkPrime has just released a Copy feature which makes duplicating past TurkPrime HITs simple and fast. To copy the settings from an old survey to a new one, follow these simple steps: Go to the HIT you want to copy...

Our Micro-Batching Feature Will Improve the Quality of Your Data

CloudResearch
June 29, 2015

Our Micro-Batching Feature Will Improve the Quality of Your Data

We have deployed a micro-batching feature which allows Requesters to break up their studies into smaller segments, and to include time intervals between the segments. We developed this feature to increase sample representation. This feature can also save 50% in MTurk fees.

Bounce and Completion Rate

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
June 8, 2015

Bounce and Completion Rate

In the latest release of CloudResearch.com we added many new features and fixes among them 2 additional metrics for every survey: Bounce Rate Completion Rate The Bounce Rate is the percentage of Amazon workers who previewed your survey but decided...

Association for Psychological Science Symposium

Leib Litman, PhD
May 21, 2015

Association for Psychological Science Symposium

Please join us this Friday, May 21st at 1pm at our APS symposium in New York City. We will be presenting talks on TurkPrime and how to make the most of Mechanical Turk.

Reverse Rejections

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
May 13, 2015

Reverse Rejections

Problem: How can a Requester who rejected an assignment in error undo his mistake? A rejected assignment affects the Worker negatively and will often impact the Requester with negative feedback which can damage the Requester’s online reputation which lowers Worker...

Maximizing HIT Participation

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
May 13, 2015

Maximizing HIT Participation

Problem: How can you increase Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT Worker participation rates and speed completion of a HIT? This is particularly an issue with HITs that have a large number of required participants or have Qualifications that limit the number...

Qualtrics Studies Run on Mechanical Turk Can Be Integrated With CloudResearch

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
May 8, 2015

Qualtrics Studies Run on Mechanical Turk Can Be Integrated With CloudResearch

Run Qualtrics Surveys on MTurk using CloudResearch Running Qualtrics surveys on CloudResearch streamlines several major pain-points researchers using MTurk have dealt with: Researchers can setup a dynamic secret code so that each Worker receives a unique code upon completing the study....

Exclude Workers With One Click

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
May 7, 2015

Exclude Workers With One Click

Problem: Suppose you’re running a Mechanical Turk survey and need to exclude workers who took a previous survey. How can you quickly set this up. Some of the currently used solutions require following multiple steps to set things up and...

Longitudinal and Follow Up Surveys on Mechanical Turk

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
May 7, 2015

Longitudinal and Follow Up Surveys on Mechanical Turk

Problem: Suppose you need to run a survey on Mechanical Turk and follow up with the same workers a week, month or year later. A few issues come up: How can I limit the follow up surveys to survey takers...

Finding More Mechanical Turk Workers Faster with CloudResearch Restart HIT

Jonathan Robinson, PhD
March 24, 2015

Finding More Mechanical Turk Workers Faster with CloudResearch Restart HIT

Problem: Suppose you need to run a HIT with 1000 Workers. Or a HIT that is only open to Workers who have an approval Rating of 95% or more and have completed 500 HITs or more. Although when you launched...

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