Systems perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for organizational research: Review and recommendations

MG Keith, L Tay, PD Harms - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is becoming a prevalent source of quick and cost effective
data for organizational research, but there are questions about the appropriateness of the …

Quality control in crowdsourcing: A survey of quality attributes, assessment techniques, and assurance actions

F Daniel, P Kucherbaev, C Cappiello… - ACM Computing …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourcing enables one to leverage on the intelligence and wisdom of potentially large
groups of individuals toward solving problems. Common problems approached with …

Monopsony in online labor markets

A Dube, J Jacobs, S Naidu, S Suri - American Economic Review …, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Despite the seemingly low switching and search costs of on-demand labor markets like
Amazon Mechanical Turk, we find substantial monopsony power, as measured by the …

Inside the Turk: Understanding Mechanical Turk as a participant pool

G Paolacci, J Chandler - Current directions in psychological …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online labor market created by Amazon, has recently become
popular among social scientists as a source of survey and experimental data. The workers …

Who are the Turkers? A characterization of MTurk workers using the personality assessment inventory

MN McCredie, LC Morey - Assessment, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
As online data collection services such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) gain
popularity, the quality and representativeness of such data sources have gained research …

The future of crowd work

A Kittur, JV Nickerson, M Bernstein, E Gerber… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Paid crowd work offers remarkable opportunities for improving productivity, social mobility,
and the global economy by engaging a geographically distributed workforce to complete …

Revolt: Collaborative crowdsourcing for labeling machine learning datasets

JC Chang, S Amershi, E Kamar - … of the 2017 CHI conference on human …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourcing provides a scalable and efficient way to construct labeled datasets for
training machine learning systems. However, creating comprehensive label guidelines for …

A survey on task assignment in crowdsourcing

D Hettiachchi, V Kostakos, J Goncalves - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Quality improvement methods are essential to gathering high-quality crowdsourced data,
both for research and industry applications. A popular and broadly applicable method is task …

Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science

WM Hochachka, D Fink, RA Hutchinson… - Trends in ecology & …, 2012 - cell.com
Identifying ecological patterns across broad spatial and temporal extents requires novel
approaches and methods for acquiring, integrating and modeling massive quantities of …

Making better use of the crowd: How crowdsourcing can advance machine learning research

JW Vaughan - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2018 - jmlr.org
This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the landscape of crowdsourcing
research, targeted at the machine learning community. We begin with an overview of the …