Do truth-telling oaths improve honesty in crowd-working?
This study explores whether an oath to honesty can reduce both shirking and lying among crowd-sourced internet workers. Using a classic coin-flip experiment, we first confirm that a substantial majority of Mechanical Turk workers both shirk and lie when reporting the number of heads flipped. We then...
Main Authors: | Nicolas Jacquemet, Alexander G James, Stéphane Luchini, James J Murphy, Jason F Shogren |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244958 |
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