Taking the time? Explaining effortful participation among low-cost online survey participants

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dc.contributor.authorAnson, Ian G.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-11T19:53:40Z
dc.date.available2018-09-11T19:53:40Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-10
dc.description.abstractRecent research has shown that Amazon MTurk workers exhibit substantially more effort and attention than respondents in student samples when participating in survey experiments. In this paper, I examine when and why low-cost online survey participants provide effortful responses to survey experiments in political science. I compare novice and veteran MTurk workers to participants in Qualtrics’s qBus, a comparable online omnibus program. The results show that MTurk platform participation is associated with substantially greater effort across a variety of indicators of effort relative to demographically-matched peers. This effect endures even when compensating for the amount of survey experience accumulated by respondents, suggesting that MTurk workers may be especially motivated due to an understudied self-selection mechanism. Together, the findings suggest that novice and veteran MTurk workers alike are preferable to comparable convenience sample participants when performing complex tasks.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168018785483en_US
dc.format.extent8 pagesen_US
dc.genreJournal articleen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2ZK55Q50
dc.identifier.citationIan G. Anson TI, Taking the time? Explaining effortful participation among low-cost online survey participants, Journal Article, 2018, Research & Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168018785483en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/2053168018785483
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/11279
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Political Science
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectMTurken_US
dc.subjectqBusen_US
dc.subjectmatchingen_US
dc.subjectsatisficingen_US
dc.subjectsurvey experimentsen_US
dc.titleTaking the time? Explaining effortful participation among low-cost online survey participantsen_US
dc.title.alternativeTaking the Time Explaining effortful participation among low-cost online survey participants
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