Concerns and recommendations for using Amazon MTurk for eating disorder research.

Carolyn Blair Burnette Jessica L Luzier Brooke L BennettChantel M WeisenmullerPatrick KerrShelby MartinJillian KeenerLisa Calderwood

Published in: The International journal of eating disorders (2021)

Our results strongly suggest most of our data were invalid, and call into question results of recently published MTurk studies. We assert that caution and rigor must be applied when using MTurk as a recruitment tool for ED research, and offer several suggestions for ED researchers to mitigate and identify invalid data.

Keyphrases

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