Comparing Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform to conventional data collection methods in the health and medical research literature

K Mortensen, TL Hughes - Journal of general internal medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background The goal of this article is to conduct an assessment of the peer-reviewed
primary literature with study objectives to analyze Amazon. com's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) …

A comparison of lifestyle marketing and brand influencer advertising for Generation Z Instagram users

S Hazari, BN Sethna - Journal of Promotion Management, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Instagram has become a popular platform for consumers and marketers. Using the stimulus-
organism-response theory, this study compared lifestyle and brand influencer types of …

“Participant” perceptions of Twitter research ethics

C Fiesler, N Proferes - Social Media+ Society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Social computing systems such as Twitter present new research sites that have provided
billions of data points to researchers. However, the availability of public social media data …

Replication: How well do my results generalize now? The external validity of online privacy and security surveys

J Tang, E Birrell, A Lerner - … symposium on usable privacy and security …, 2022 - usenix.org
Privacy and security researchers often rely on data collected through online crowdsourcing
platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and Prolific. Prior work---which used …

Quality control questions on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk): A randomized trial of impact on the USAUDIT, PHQ-9, and GAD-7

J Agley, Y Xiao, R Nolan, L Golzarri-Arroyo - Behavior research methods, 2022 - Springer
Crowdsourced psychological and other biobehavioral research using platforms like
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is increasingly common–but has proliferated more …

Designing toxic content classification for a diversity of perspectives

D Kumar, PG Kelley, S Consolvo, J Mason… - … Symposium on Usable …, 2021 - usenix.org
In this work, we demonstrate how existing classifiers for identifying toxic comments online
fail to generalize to the diverse concerns of Internet users. We survey 17,280 participants to …

" I need a better description": An Investigation Into User Expectations For Differential Privacy

R Cummings, G Kaptchuk, EM Redmiles - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Despite recent widespread deployment of differential privacy, relatively little is known about
what users think of differential privacy. In this work, we seek to explore users' privacy …

Lifetime experience with (classic) psychedelics predicts pro-environmental behavior through an increase in nature relatedness

M Forstmann, C Sagioglou - Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In a large-scale (N= 1487) general population online study, we investigated the relationship
between past experience with classic psychedelic substances (eg LSD, psilocybin …

Toggles, dollar signs, and triangles: How to (in) effectively convey privacy choices with icons and link texts

H Habib, Y Zou, Y Yao, A Acquisti, L Cranor… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Increasingly, icons are being proposed to concisely convey privacy-related information and
choices to users. However, complex privacy concepts can be difficult to communicate. We …

An empirical study on the perceived fairness of realistic, imperfect machine learning models

G Harrison, J Hanson, C Jacinto, J Ramirez… - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
There are many competing definitions of what statistical properties make a machine learning
model fair. Unfortunately, research has shown that some key properties are mutually …