The importance of assessing clinical phenomena in Mechanical Turk research

• Published in: Psychological assessment Vol. 28; no. 6; p. 684
• Main Authors: Arditte, Kimberly A, Çek, Demet, Shaw, Ashley M, Timpano, Kiara R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.06.2016
• Subjects: Adult; Behavioral Research - standards; Behavioral Research - statistics & numerical data; Data Collection - standards; Data Collection - statistics & numerical data; Female; Humans; Internet - standards; Internet - statistics & numerical data; Male; Mental Disorders - epidemiology

Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) website provides a data collection platform with quick and inexpensive access to diverse samples. Numerous reports have lauded MTurk as capturing high-quality data with an epidemiological sample that is more representative of the U.S. population than traditi...