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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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Ano: 2015, Volume: 54, Número: 2, Páginas: 419-428 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Amazon Mechanical Turk
/ Befragter
/ Religiosity
/ Evangelical movement
/ Catholic
/ Irreligiousness
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AD Sociologia da religião KDB Igreja católica KDG Igreja livre ZB Sociologia |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
seculars
B Experiment B Religion B Convenience Sample B Politics B Mechanical Turk |
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| Resumo: | 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 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12184 |