Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Mechanical Turk upends social sciences. |
| Authors: |
Bohannon, John |
| Source: |
Science (pre-March 2025). 6/10/2016, Vol. 352 Issue 6291, p1263-1264. 2p. |
| Subjects: |
Crowdsourcing, Social media, Social sciences -- Computer network resources, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Amazon.com Inc. |
| Abstract: |
The article reports on the popularity of the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online crowd-sourcing service by internet-based retail business Amazon. Topics discussed include volunteers' participation in the social science experiments by logging on to MTurk, why social sciences study needs a cloud storage and researchers' concerns over the popularity of MTurk. |
| Database: |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
