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Jennifer
Jennifer

Reputation: 295

Simultaneous Studies in Mechanical Turk with Worker Exclusions

I am trying to see if there is a way to run 2 or more studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk simultaneously. However, in doing so, workers who participate in one of the studies should not be able to complete another one of my studies. I have heard about doing this using the "Survey Batch" option in TurkPrime, but I am not sure if there is a way to run the same logic through Mechanical Turk.

I completed some research in understanding how to do this process with multiple studies across different periods of time. For cases like these, I know the way to go is to download the worker ID and manually include a custom qualification so that they would not complete the second study that I am running. However, is there a way to exclude workers from completing both studies if the studies were to be conducted simultaneously?

In short, I would expect to run two studies together. If participant A already submitted answers for Study 1, they cannot close the window and immediately start Study 2, which is another study running at the same time when Study 1 was opened.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 193

Answers (1)

Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 1377

You are correct that using the MTurk web site directly it is not possible to run 2 studies simultaneously unless you either put the blocking logic within your study or you hook into the mturk api or both.

The only solution I am aware of is using the survey group feature using Turkprime.com

Upvotes: 1

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