Workshop - Open sampling: Challenges in using Mturk and other crowdsourced samples?

A huge proportion of participants in psychological studies are sampled from online services such as MTurk and Prolific. These services have the potential to accelerate the self-reforming process that is currently undergoing in psychology (e.g., by enabling larger sample sizes), but also pose new threats to data validity. This workshop has a twofold goal: First, it will provide insights for researchers to maximize the quality of the data collected from such samples. We will address issues such as the supposed prevalence of “bots”, participant nonnaiveté, and participant misrepresentation. Second, it aims at initiating a conversation about how to promote data collection practices that align with the short- and long-term interests of both the scientific community and research participants. You can find the slides of the workshop on this page.

在心理学研究参与者中，大量样本来源于诸如MTurk和Prolific等在线服务平台。此类服务具备加速心理学领域当前正在进行自我革新进程（例如，通过实现更大样本量）的潜力，但同时也对数据的有效性提出了新的挑战。本研讨会旨在实现双重目标：首先，为研究者提供洞见，以最大化从此类样本中收集到的数据质量。我们将探讨诸如“机器人”的普遍存在、参与者的非纯真性以及参与者误表征等问题。其次，旨在开启一场关于如何促进与科学界及研究参与者短期及长期利益相一致的资料收集实践的对话。您可以在本页找到研讨会的幻灯片。