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The burden for high-quality online data collection lies with researchers, not recruitment platforms

2022-11-26

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<p>A recent article in Perspectives on Psychological Science (Webb &amp; Tangney, 2022, W&amp;T) reported a study where just 2.6% of participants recruited on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk were deemed "valid". They highlight some well-established limitations of Mechanical Turk, but their takeaways—the claims that it is "too good to be true," and that it captured "only 14 human beings … [of] N=529"—are radically mislead...

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10.31234/osf.io/w7qy9
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