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Re:Poll: What experiment to run on AWS mechanical turk? by AlexeyMK on Monday December 15, 2008 @07:16AM (#398266)
I'd love to see a prisoner's dilemma experiment via MTurk. These tend to be financial in nature, though; can you set variable payment rates per task, depending on external factors?
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Re:Poll: What experiment to run on AWS mechanical turk? by sigstoat on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @06:35PM (#400274)
you can pay out arbitrary bonuses once they've answered.

so you could easily do single-round prisoner's dilemma, and have amazon pair up 2 (different) folks at a time, and when you get the results back, look to see what the folks in each pair did, and award bonuses appropriately.

i'm not sure if there is a way to do an iterated version.

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