Assessing Measures of Religion and Secularity with Crowdsourced Data from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Joseph O. Baker; Jonathan P. Hill; Nathaniel D. Porter

Assessing Measures of Religion and Secularity with Crowdsourced Data from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Joseph O. Baker
, Jonathan P. Hill
, Nathaniel D. Porter

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Abstract

Excerpt: Time and expense are perhaps the two biggest challenges in evaluating existing measures and devoloping new metrics. Measuring social characterists of a population such as religion typically involves expensive surveys undertaken by professional survey firms or academic centers.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Faithful Measures
State	Published - Oct 1 2017

Keywords

Amazon
crowdsourced data
faithful measures
measurement of religion
mechanical turk
religion
secularism

Disciplines

Sociology of Religion
Theory, Knowledge and Science

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https://www.amazon.com/Faithful-Measures-Methods-Measurement-Religion/dp/1479877107/

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Assessing Measures of Religion and Secularity with Crowdsourced Data from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

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