Checklist
Checklist for moving a study off MTurk
Eight steps for researchers relaunching a study that ran on Amazon Mechanical Turk, which closed on September 30, 2026. It covers the October 30 deadline for approvals and bonuses, rebuilding exclusion lists, resetting pay, keeping quality checks comparable and piloting first. Print it or share it with your lab. On Koji, screening questions and quality scores cover the exclusion and quality steps.
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What's in this checklist
- Export batch results, worker IDs, qualification lists and bonus records
- Approve and bonus outstanding work by October 30, 2026
- Rebuild exclusions with screening questions, since worker IDs do not carry over
- Reset pay to the new platform's hourly minimum, using your median completion time
- Keep the same attention and consistency checks so waves stay comparable
- Update your preregistration and ethics approval with the new platform
- Pilot with 10 to 20 completes before spending the full budget
- Note the platform change in your methods section
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