Caution when Crowdsourcing: Prolific as a Superior Platform Compared with MTurk

Authors: D OConnell, A Bautista

Published: 2025

Publication: ... Student Journal of ..., 2025 - journals.library.columbia.edu

Prolific outperforms MTurk in participant data quality and affordability for online survey-based research.

Methods: Data from participants recruited via MTurk and Prolific were analyzed for cost, attention measures, participation duration, and internal consistency.

Key Findings: Comparison of data quality and cost-effectiveness between MTurk and Prolific for online survey recruitment.

Limitations: Study only analyzed existing data without addressing potential biases or broader ecological validity across other types of studies.

Institution: University of Houston, Webster University

Research Area: Crowdsourcing Research Methodology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Discipline: Computational Social Science,Behavioral Research

Sample Size: 699 participants

Citations: 1