A convenient solution: Using MTurk to sample from Hard-To-Reach populations

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 220-228

  Smith, Nicholas A ^a   Sabat, Isaac E ^b   Martinez, Larry R ^a   Weaver, Kayla ^a   Xu, Shi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84964507858     PISSN: 17549426     EISSN: 17549434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/iop.2015.29     Document Type: Note

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