Comparisons of Online Recruitment Strategies for Convenience Samples: Craigslist, Google AdWords, Facebook, and Amazon Mechanical Turk

Field Methods

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 231-246

  Antoun, Christopher ^a   Zhang, Chan ^b   Conrad, Frederick G ^a   Schober, Michael F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 84978138770     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X15603149     Document Type: Review

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