I've been using MTurk to conduct surveys for about two years now and I suppose, like me, most requesters have played with the idea of running their surveys in India rather than the US. You'd get the same results for a fraction of the costs ... Or so it might seem. I gave it a try on three occasions and this post is a warning to all those who want to give it a try as well. Just don't. It's a waste of your time and money. The results are, sorry to be so blunt, garbage.
A great thing about MTurk US (and probably Canada / Western Europe) is that the results really are of high quality. This in the sense that you can reproduce well-studied effects with ease. Attention checks are rarely missed and reverse-coded questions do their job. Let me present three pieces of evidence why the same cannot be said about MTurk India.
Exhibit 1 (https://imgur.com/a/79MEl7H): Here you can see the correlations between three items that all measure the Big Five trait stability for a) three surveys conducted in India and b) three surveys conducted in the US, all with n > 200 participants. The items are: stable = I am emotionally stable, mood_swings = I frequently experience mood swings, worry = I worry a lot. From logic, as well as from a great body of scientific research on the Big Five, we expect strong negative correlations between stable / mood_swings and stable / worry. Now take a look at the first row of each image. And compare the US and India results. The results from the three US surveys make sense are consistent with scientific studies on the Big Five. The three India surveys all fail at this. Even worse, one of the surveys from India even suggests, with a high statistical significance of p < 0.01, that the more mood swings a person experiences, the more emotionally stable this person is. Not sure about that ...
Exhibit 2 (https://imgur.com/a/7fSeXJ0): You get the same big picture from looking at the three items measuring conscientiousness. Again, both logic and scientific studies say that the items disorganized / schedule and the items disorganized / chores will have a strong negative correlation. They do for all three US surveys. They don't for all three India surveys. One of the India surveys again even measures the nonsensical opposite: the more disorganized you are, the more you take care of your chores without delay.
I could go on with more exhibits, these are just two examples of many, but you
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