Data quality in online human-subjects research: Comparisons between MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 18; no. 3; p. e0279720
• Main Authors: Douglas, Benjamin D., Ewell, Patrick J., Brauer, Markus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 14.03.2023; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Biology and Life Sciences; Comparative analysis; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Data Accuracy; Data collection; Data entry; Demographics; Humans; Information management; Information services; Medical research; Online health care information services; Online information services; Online services; Pandemics; People and places; Personality; Polls & surveys; Population; Quality management; Research and Analysis Methods; Research Subjects; Researchers; Social Sciences; Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; United States > US

With the proliferation of online data collection in human-subjects research, concerns have been raised over the presence of inattentive survey participants and non-human respondents (bots). We compared the quality of the data collected through five commonly used platforms. Data quality was indicated...