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标题：Intertemporal Differences Among MTurk Workers: Time-Based Sample Variations and Implications for Online Data Collection
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作者：Logan S. Casey ; Jesse Chandler ; Adam Seth Levine 等
期刊名称：SAGE Open
印刷版ISSN：2158-2440
电子版ISSN：2158-2440
出版年度：2017
卷号：7
期号：2
DOI：10.1177/2158244017712774
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：The online labor market Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular source of respondents for social science research. A growing body of research has examined the demographic composition of MTurk workers as compared with that of other populations. While these comparisons have revealed the ways in which MTurk workers are and are not representative of the general population, variations among samples drawn from MTurk have received less attention. This article focuses on whether MTurk sample composition varies as a function of time. Specifically, we examine whether demographic characteristics vary by (a) time of day, (b) day of week, and serial position (i.e., earlier or later in data collection), both (c) across the entire data collection and (d) within specific batches. We find that day of week differences are minimal, but that time of day and serial position are associated with small but important variations in demographic composition. This demonstrates that MTurk samples cannot be presumed identical across different studies, potentially affecting reliability, validity, and efforts to reproduce findings.
关键词：political methodology; political science; social sciences; politics and social sciences; research methods; data collection; research methodology and design; reliability and validity; political behavior/psychology; psychology