CloudResearch Blog

TurkPrime Blog

MTurk Panels on Your Own Requester Account

Posted by Jonathan Robinson on Sep 8, 2016 6:44:00 PM

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. But it does not stop there! The available options also include occupation, medical and health history, cell phone use and much more.

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, demographics, mechanical turk, mturk, qualification, traits, turkprime, turkprime panels

Survey Groups Ensure Unique Workers Across Multiple Concurrent Studies

Posted by Jonathan Robinson on Aug 23, 2016 2:41:00 PM

Problem

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.

(Note: TurkPrime's exclude feature excludes workers who have completed one study from taking another subsequent study, but not if both studies are being run at the same time.)

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, exclude, exclude workers, follow up, qualification

Demographic Consistency Over Time on Mechanical Turk

Posted by TurkPrime on Apr 12, 2016 12:15:00 PM

Problem

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?

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, demographics, gender gap, mechanical turk, mturk, panels

New Safety Feature: Assignment Rejections are not Automated and Require Manual User Action

Posted by Jonathan Robinson on Feb 19, 2016 10:39:00 AM

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 incorrectly which results in many worker assignments getting automatically rejected. This was a significant cause for distress among the Mechanical Turk workers who received rejections for their work which then went unpaid and also lowered their MTurk approval rating. This was also a sore point for TurkPrimeresearcherswho had to deal with upset workers and correspond with them, and often reverse their rejections.

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, autoapproval, reverse rejection, study, survey, turkprime

Anonymize Mechanical Turk Worker IDs

Posted by Jonathan Robinson on Jan 18, 2016 6:32:00 PM

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 for both the Worker ID on Mechanical Turk and elsewhere on Amazon properties like Amazon.com product reviews.

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, anonymize, anonymous, exclude workers, HIT, include workers, mechanical turk, mturk, turkprime

Block Multiple Responses from the Same IP Address

Posted by Jonathan Robinson on Jan 7, 2016 10:36:00 AM

Block Duplicate IP Addresses

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

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, IP address, IP block, mechanical turk, unique worker, workerid

HyperBatch - Run Batched HITs at Hyper Speeds

Posted by Jonathan Robinson on Jan 5, 2016 2:24:00 PM

HyperBatch Feature

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.

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, HIT, hyperbatch, mechanical turk, microbatch, mturk, mturk api, mturkgate, turkprime

Easily Copy Past HITs

Posted by Jonathan Robinson on Aug 25, 2015 3:09:00 PM

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:

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, copy hit, mechanical turk, turkprime

Our Micro-batching Feature will Improve the Quality of Your Data

Posted by TurkPrime on Jun 29, 2015 7:57:00 AM

MicroBatch

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.

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, mechanical turk, microbatch, mturk, mturkgate

TurkPrime Video Tutorials to Get You Started with Mechanical Turk

Posted by TurkPrime on Jun 26, 2015 2:34:00 PM

TurkPrime now has tutorials to get you started

If you're looking for a video tutorial that explains how to setup your account on TurkPrime, how to run a longitudinal study, or how to limit who takes your HIT on Mechanical Turk, these resources are for you.

Read More

Topics: amazon mechanical turk, exclude workers, HIT, include workers, mturk, turkprime

Subscribe Here!

Recent Posts

Posts by Tag

See all