The (Non) Religion of Mechanical Turk Workers
Social science researchers have increasingly come to utilize Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to obtain adult, opt-in samples for use with experiments. Based on the demographic characteristics of MTurk samples, studies have provided some support for the representativeness of MTurk. Others have...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Jahr: 2015, Band: 54, Heft: 2, Seiten: 419-428 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Amazon Mechanical Turk
/ Befragter
/ Religiosität
/ Evangelikale Bewegung
/ Katholik
/ Religionslosigkeit
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| IxTheo Notationen: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik KDB Katholische Kirche KDG Freikirche ZB Soziologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
seculars
B Experiment B Religion B Convenience Sample B Politics B Mechanical Turk |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Social science researchers have increasingly come to utilize Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to obtain adult, opt-in samples for use with experiments. Based on the demographic characteristics of MTurk samples, studies have provided some support for the representativeness of MTurk. Others have warranted caution based on demographic characteristics and comparisons of reliability. Yet, what is missing is an examination of the most glaring demographic difference in MTurkreligion. We compare five MTurk samples with a student convenience sample and the 2012 General Social Survey, finding that MTurk samples have a consistent bias toward nonreligion. MTurk surveys significantly overrepresent seculars and underrepresent Catholics and evangelical Protestants. We then compare the religiosity of religious identifiers across samples as well as relationships between religiosity and partisanship, finding many similarities and a few important differences from the general population. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12184 |