Christian Peters

The Fall of Constantinople for Amazon's Mechanical Turks?
The Fall of Constantinople for Amazon's Mechanical Turks?

While the Ottoman Turks caused turmoil in the late Middle Ages and the Age of Reformation, Amazon’s Mechanical Turks are causing a turmoil in experimental research at this moment. While early studies documented that Amazon’s Mechanical Turk participants were valid proxies for experimental accounting research, there are increasing concerns about the quality of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) data.

May 8, 2024

Running your experiment on MTurk
Running your experiment on MTurk

With the increasing popularity of online experiments, many have asked us for advice on how to conduct experiments on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. In this post, Christian Peters provides a hands-on guide.

August 31, 2021

Why ANOVA and linear regression are the same
Why ANOVA and linear regression are the same

Why do some experimentalists in accounting use ANOVA's while other use regressions? What's the difference? This post shows why they are merely different representations of the same thing.

February 26, 2021

Deploying your experiment to a server
Deploying your experiment to a server

The consequences of the Coronavirus have made it impossible to run experiments in the laboratory. This post shows how you can launch your experiment to participants on the internet.

April 28, 2020

Eliciting process variables using scripts
Eliciting process variables using scripts

This post shows how you can elicit process variables in an unobtrusive way using scripts.

March 10, 2020

Embedding excel spreadsheets in your experiment
Embedding excel spreadsheets in your experiment

Some experiments ask participants to make use of Excel spreadsheets. This post shows how to embed Excel spreadsheets in the code of your experiment.

January 8, 2020