Crowdsourcing Experiments, Mechanical Turk, 'n stuff

The Economist has a piece on how crowdsourcing and tools like Mechanical Turk are transforming science: “the roar of the crowd.”  Here’s the blog dedicated to help scientists set up their experiments on Mechanical Turk, Experimental Turk.  I’m guessing it is a matter of time before some strategy-related experiments get done on Mechanical Turk – here’s probably a few such pieces (well, just a very loose search of mechanical turk+smj+mgtsci).

• This appears to be PhD Student collecting dissertation data via a decision-making task on Mechanical Turk.
• Here’s a Cornell marketing scholar collecting data.
• Lots of the “game” tasks appear to be experiments.

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