The particular case of conducting addiction intervention research on Mechanical Turk

Alexandra Godinho; John A. Cunningham; Christina Schell

doi:10.1111/add.15097

The particular case of conducting addiction intervention research on Mechanical Turk

Alexandra Godinho, John A. Cunningham^*, Christina Schell

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As Mechanical Turk (MTurk) becomes a more popular platform for conducting addiction intervention studies, greater awareness of the limitations of this participant pool is needed. Specific challenges for testing interventions on MTurk include: limited intervention engagement, the sharing of crucial study information among MTurk workers and the collection of fraudulent responses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1971-1972
Number of pages	2
Journal	Addiction
Volume	115
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15097
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2020

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