Everything about Turk

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: TurkA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical TurkInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: With the Turks in PalestineThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Amazon's Mechanical TurkCited 7,837 times
5. Go sideways: TurkmenA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: TurkishA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Amazon's Mechanical Turk

  Michael Buhrmester, Tracy Kwang, Samuel D. Gosling · 2011 · Perspectives on Psychological Science · 7,837 citations

• Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk

  Gabriele Paolacci, Jesse Chandler, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis · 2010 · Judgment and Decision Making · 3,268 citations

• Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk

  Adam J. Berinsky, Gregory A. Huber, Gabriel S. Lenz · 2012 · Political Analysis · 3,164 citations

• Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research

  Eyal Peer, Laura Brandimarte, Sonam Samat · 2017 · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 2,630 citations

• Conducting behavioral research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

  Winter Mason, Siddharth Suri · 2011 · Behavior Research Methods · 2,369 citations

• Inside the Turk

  Gabriele Paolacci, Jesse Chandler · 2014 · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 1,811 citations

• Data Collection in a Flat World: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Mechanical Turk Samples

  Joseph K. Goodman, Cynthia E. Cryder, Amar Cheema · 2012 · Journal of Behavioral Decision Making · 1,757 citations

• Reputation as a sufficient condition for data quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk

  Eyal Peer, Joachim Vosgerau, Alessandro Acquisti · 2013 · Behavior Research Methods · 1,345 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk

  Margaret A. Webb, June P. Tangney · 2022 · Perspectives on Psychological Science · 136 citations

• Is it ethical to use Mechanical Turk for behavioral research? Relevant data from a representative survey of MTurk participants and wages

  Aaron J. Moss, Cheskie Rosenzweig, Jonathan Robinson · 2023 · Behavior Research Methods · 54 citations

• COVID-19 associated multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in 614 children with and without overlap with Kawasaki disease-Turk MIS-C study group

  Dilek Yilmaz Ciftdogan, Yildiz Ekemen Keles, Benhur Sirvan Cetin · 2022 · European Journal of Pediatrics · 38 citations

• Comparing Data Collected on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to National Surveys

  Nabeel Qureshi, Maria Edelen, Lara Hilton · 2022 · American Journal of Health Behavior · 36 citations

• The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’

  Elizabeth Stephens · 2022 · Cultural Studies · 28 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• With the Turks in PalestineAlexander Aaronsohn · 1916
• Historical SketchesJohn Henry Newman · 1872
• A thousand years of the TartarsEdward Harper Parker, E. H. Parker · 1895
• Turkism and the SovietsCharles Warren Hostler · 1957
• The Turks of Central Asia in history and at the present dayMarie Antoinette Czaplicka · 1918
• Turkey of the OttomansGarnett, Lucy Mary Jane · 1911
• Madonna in a Fur CoatSabahattin Ali, Alexander Dawe · 2016
• 📕Türk tarihiRıza Nur · 1900

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