This article by Winter Mason and Siddharth Suri, published in 2011, aims to demonstrate how Amazon's Mechanical Turk can be utilized for conducting behavioral research. Mechanical Turk is an online labor market where requesters post jobs and workers choose which jobs to do for pay. The authors highlight several advantages of using Mechanical Turk for research, including easy access to a large, stable, and diverse subject pool, low cost, and faster iteration between theory development and experimentation. They discuss the behavior of workers compared to experts and laboratory subjects, and provide detailed instructions on how to set up tasks, recruit subjects, execute tasks, and review submissions. The article also addresses common problems such as conducting synchronous experiments, ensuring high-quality work, maintaining data privacy, and securing code. The authors conclude by emphasizing the potential of Mechanical Turk as a valuable tool for researchers, particularly those who are new to the platform or seeking to conduct research in specific areas like crowdsourcing and online research.This article by Winter Mason and Siddharth Suri, published in 2011, aims to demonstrate how Amazon's Mechanical Turk can be utilized for conducting behavioral research. Mechanical Turk is an online labor market where requesters post jobs and workers choose which jobs to do for pay. The authors highlight several advantages of using Mechanical Turk for research, including easy access to a large, stable, and diverse subject pool, low cost, and faster iteration between theory development and experimentation. They discuss the behavior of workers compared to experts and laboratory subjects, and provide detailed instructions on how to set up tasks, recruit subjects, execute tasks, and review submissions. The article also addresses common problems such as conducting synchronous experiments, ensuring high-quality work, maintaining data privacy, and securing code. The authors conclude by emphasizing the potential of Mechanical Turk as a valuable tool for researchers, particularly those who are new to the platform or seeking to conduct research in specific areas like crowdsourcing and online research.