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Ethical concerns arising from recruiting workers from Amazon's Mechanical Turk as research participants: Commentary on Burnette et al. (2021).
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The International journal of eating disorders [Int J Eat Disord] 2022 Feb; Vol. 55 (2), pp. 276-277. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 20. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- In this commentary, we respond to Burnette et al.'s (2021) paper, which gives significant practical recommendations to improve data quality and validity while gathering data via Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk). We argue that it is also important to acknowledge and review the specific ethical issues that might arise when recruiting MTurk workers as participants. We particularly raise three main ethical concerns that need to be addressed when recruiting research participants from participant recruitment platforms: participants' economic vulnerability, participants' sensitivity, and power dynamics between participants and researchers. We elaborate on these issues by discussing the ways in which they may appear and be responded to. We conclude that considering the ethical aspects of data collection and the potential impacts of data collection on those involved would complement Burnette et al.'s recommendations. Consequently, data collection processes should be transparent as well, in addition to data screening processes.<br /> (© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
- Subjects :
- Data Collection standards
Humans
Crowdsourcing standards
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1098-108X
- Volume :
- 55
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The International journal of eating disorders
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34931338
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23658