{"id":2101,"date":"2010-10-18T00:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T23:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2010-10-19T00:54:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T23:54:41","slug":"a-guide-to-conducting-behavioral-research-on-amazons-mechanical-turk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to Conducting Behavioral Research on Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FASTER, CHEAPER, EASIER BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH ONLINE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mtg2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2102  aligncenter\" title=\"mtg2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mtg2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing Decision Science News particularly enjoys about being at Yahoo! Research is the brilliant colleagues. This week, two of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/smallsocialsystems.com\/profhome.html\">Winter Mason<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidsuri.com\/About_Me.html\">Sid Suri<\/a>, presented us with this manuscript which is a guide to conducting research on Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk.<\/p>\n<p>Manuscript? Manuscript from heaven, we say, for here at DSN we are often being asked the ins and outs of this technology and now have a guide to link to. Read it now before it gets published:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1691163\">A Guide to Conducting Behavioral Research on Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Decision Science News&#8217; earlier posts on MT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2009\/11\/16\/amazons-mechanical-turk-meets-classic-jdm-experiments\/\">Amazon\u2019s Mechanical Turk meets classic JDM experiments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2009\/12\/17\/how-to-run-experiments-on-mechanical-turk\/\">How to run experiments on Mechanical Turk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Photo credit: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">R<\/a> language for statistical computing<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FASTER, CHEAPER, EASIER BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH ONLINE One thing Decision Science News particularly enjoys about being at Yahoo! Research is the brilliant colleagues. This week, two of them, Winter Mason and Sid Suri, presented us with this manuscript which is a guide to conducting research on Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk. Manuscript? Manuscript from heaven, we say, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4,16,2],"tags":[20,27,145,36,1208,70,101,1207],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-encyclopedia","category-ideas","category-research-news","tag-decision-making","tag-economics","tag-online","tag-psychology","tag-r","tag-statistics","tag-stats","tag-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-xT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}