The viability of crowdsourcing for survey research

• Published in: Behavior research methods Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 800 - 813
• Main Authors: Behrend, Tara S., Sharek, David J., Meade, Adam W., Wiebe, Eric N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.09.2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Behavioral Research; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Compensation; Crowdsourcing; Data collection; Data Collection - methods; Humans; Internet; Patient Selection; Personality; Psychology; Research Design; Research Subjects; Sampling techniques; Studies; Wages & salaries; Workforce; Crowdsourcing; Survey research; Industrial/organizational psychology; Personality; Sampling; Mechanical Turk

Online contract labor portals (i.e., crowdsourcing) have recently emerged as attractive alternatives to university participant pools for the purposes of collecting survey data for behavioral research. However, prior research has not provided a thorough examination of crowdsourced data for organizati...