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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.
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  Data: 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.
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