Research question 1 concerned the demographic makeup of the crowdsourcing sample, as compared with a university sample
2011
Key concepts
- contract labor portal
- prior research
- behavioral research
- appropriate alternative
- pencil
- survey datum
- Personality
- Industrial/ organizational psychology
- principal components analysis
- human intelligence tasks
- Sampling
- measurement invariance
- likelihood ratio test
- BoothKewley
- organizational psychology research
- signed test difference in the sample
- ethical guideline
- Survey research
- Mechanical Turk
- Crowdsourcing
- small difference
- thorough examination
- traditional university participant pool
- crowdsourcing sample
- item response theory
- corresponding university sample
- Expected test score stand. difference
- work experience
- administration medium
- attractive alternative
- crowdsourced datum
- psychology
Scholarcy highlights
- Online contract labor portals have recently emerged as attractive alternatives to university participant pools for the purposes of collecting survey data for behavioral research
- We provide an overview of crowdsourcing, examine the demographic makeup of a crowdsourced sample, and systematically investigate the viability of crowdsourcing for providing quality data for survey research
- Two samples were collected; the first was from a traditional psychology participant pool, and the second was from Mechanical Turk
- Research question 1 concerned the demographic makeup of the crowdsourcing sample, as compared with a university sample
- 7.12 In this study, we sought to identify whether crowdsourcing 3.37 is a viable alternative to the use of university subject pools, which are often criticized for their homogeneous makeup
- We administered a survey 5.62 to samples drawn from both crowdsourcing and university 0.75 participant pools to examine the quality of data gathered 7.49 from each source, as well as to understand more about the 1.50 crowdsourcing participants
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