{"id":64,"date":"2008-10-12T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cedarsdigest.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/12\/using-amazons-mechanical-turk-for-social-science-research"},"modified":"2008-10-12T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T00:40:00","slug":"using-amazons-mechanical-turk-for-social-science-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/web\/using-amazons-mechanical-turk-for-social-science-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Amazon&#8217;s mechanical turk for social science research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;<\/p>\n<div>Have you all heard of amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk?\u00a0 Basically it is a place where you can post a task to be done over the web, and how much you want to pay for it, and then people can sign up and do the task.\u00a0 Basically it is for tasks which a large group of people are better than computers.\u00a0 So one task might be, classify these images as either people, places, or animals, and for each 10 images you classify, I will pay 1 cent.\u00a0 I have heard of people using it as a transcription service, but splitting up their audio file into hundreds of little bits, paying a cent or so for each, and then sending it on.\u00a0 From my recollection, this resulted in someone paying 10 or 15 bucks for a transcript of an hour-long interview.\u00a0 Nice.<br \/>So, now, people are starting to realize that this might be a good use for social science research.\u00a0 Look at this guy&#8217;s blog post on how he used it for some basic moral psychology research:<br \/><a href='http:\/\/anyall.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/moral-psychology-on-amazon-mechanical-turk\/'>http:\/\/anyall.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/moral-psychology-on-amazon-mechanical-turk\/<\/a><br \/>In all that I have read, it seems like the data you get is actually pretty good, and amazingly cheap and fast (You can get thousands of responses within a few hours).\u00a0 I am trying to think of some good applications of this, but probably not in perception.\u00a0 Any thoughts out there on this?<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/10439744-8579709310341780941?l=cedarsdigest.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt; Have you all heard of amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk?\u00a0 Basically it is a place where you can post a task to be done over the web, and how much you want to pay for it, and then people can sign up and do the task.\u00a0 Basically it is for tasks which a large group of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Pqh9-12","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riener.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}