What is requester in MTurk?

Mechanical Turk is a web service that provides an on-demand, scalable, human workforce to complete tasks. The Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester User Interface (RUI) provides access to Mechanical Turk functionality using a graphical user interface. For more information about Mechanical Turk, see https://www.mturk.com .

How do I recruit participants on MTurk?

To recruit participants on MTurk for your online study, you have to follow the following steps:

Create an online experiment on an external website such as Unipark.
Create a new project on MTurk that describes and links to your survey.
Purchase prepaid HITs.
Run and manage the project (check E-Mails!) and approve workers.

Can you make money on MTurk?

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing site where people can make money by completing small tasks, such as surveys or data entry. With this site, MTurk workers (called “Turkers”) can complete tasks that are too repetitive or difficult for computers, but easy enough for humans to accomplish.

How much do you pay Mturkers?

A reasonable payment for regular tasks on mturk would be something near $6.0 – $7.25 per hour. According to my experience (I don’t have data now), $6.5 per hour is close to a common practice among academic projects. Some researchers in the field of crowdsourcing, such as Prof. Jeffrey P.

Is Mechanical Turk anonymous?

Lease, M., Hullman, J., Bigham, J.P., Bernstein, M., Kim, J., Lasecki, W.S., Bakhshi, S., Mitra, T., & Miller, R.C. (2013). Mechanical Turk is not anonymous.

Does MTurk need IRB?

My own take is that for the majority of the tasks posted on MTurk, an IRB is not required. An IRB is required only when someone studies the Turkers, not when postings tasks to be completed by Turkers.