My and Aleks’ Canadian Election survey, complete with super cool implicit association tests (IAT) about the political parties, is up and running on Amazon’s M-Turk system. It’s been up for about 12 hours now and, so far, we have exactly 1 respondent. This is less than ideal, but we did post it fairly late last night, so hopefully we’ll get some more respondents today. It took the one guy who’s completed the task only about 18 minutes to do it, which is less than we thought, so that’s a plus. At least we’re learning about using Inquisit online and how to utilize the M-Turk system on Amazon, even if our response rate is somewhat limited so far. The survey will stay in the field for the next week, so hopefully we’ll get a decent enough sample over that time frame. The sample is restricted to Canada after all, maybe they don’t have wi-fi access up there in the great white north. Anyway, so far, so good, at least functionally. I’m going to try and restrain myself from check the Amazon website every 30 minutes today to see who has completed the survey.
