The Average Laboratory Samples a Population of 7,300 Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers

Neil Stewart, Christoph Ungemach, Adam J. L. Harris, Daniel M. Bartels, Ben R. Newell, Gabriele Paolacci and Jesse Chandler

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Abstract: Using capture-recapture analysis (a tool used by ecologists to estimate the size of hard to observe populations) we estimate the effective size of the active Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) population that a typical laboratory can access to be about 7,300 workers.

Keywords: Amazon Mechanical Turk; MTurk; capture-recapture; population size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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