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  • Crowd-sourcing Ethics

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  • Crowd-sourced platforms like Mechanical Turk (MTurk) often face issues with worker dishonesty and shirking.
  • Understanding the effectiveness of ethical interventions in anonymous online environments is crucial for data integrity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if a voluntary oath to honesty can mitigate dishonest reporting and shirking among online workers.
  • To assess the efficacy of an ex-post honesty oath as a potential screening mechanism for identifying dishonest participants.

Main Methods:

  • A coin-flip experiment was conducted with Mechanical Turk workers to measure shirking and lying.
  • Participants were randomly assigned to either a control group or a group taking a voluntary honesty oath before economic decisions.
  • An ex-post oath was offered to assess its utility as a screening tool.

Main Results:

  • A significant majority of workers exhibited both shirking and lying behavior in the baseline coin-flip experiment.
  • The voluntary honesty oath significantly reduced "big" lies by approximately 27% but did not impact shirking.
  • Workers who shirked or lied were significantly less likely to agree to an ex-post honesty oath.

Conclusions:

  • Voluntary honesty oaths can effectively reduce lying in anonymous, online crowd-sourced settings.
  • Oaths show promise as a tool to promote truthful behavior and potentially screen for dishonesty in digital work environments.
  • Further research can explore the scalability and long-term effects of such ethical interventions in online labor markets.