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The promise of Mechanical Turk: How online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments
Abstract
Combining evolutionary models with behavioral experiments can generate powerful insights into the evolution of human behavior. The emergence of online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) allows theorists to conduct behavioral experiments very quickly and cheaply. The process occurs entirely over the computer, and the experience is quite similar to performing a set of computer simulations. Thus AMT opens the world of...
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Title
The promise of Mechanical Turk: How online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments
Published Date
Apr 1, 2012
Volume
299
Pages
172 - 179
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