Hi Cory, You should be able to get a copy of my "Internet Survey Methodology" book through interlibrary loan. In short, you seem to be talking about pattern responses. There are a variety of ways to test for and to discourage pattern responses.   Charles Balch PhD Faculty, Department of Business & Administration Northern Arizona University - Yuma Office/cell: (928) 317-6455 / 287-3906 Skype: NAUCharlie Google+: cvb23@nau.edu     -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Robinson,Cory Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 3:02 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Establishing rationale for rejecting completed MTurk tasks Can anyone point in the right direction for literature establishing some sound guidelines for rejecting poor quality completions from MTurk workers? For example, my survey had an average completion time of 9:30, but I have respondents “complete” the survey in less than a minute. I would think it would be appropriate to reject these workers responses? Additionally, I have responses that I have reviewed where a worker selected the middle answer for all survey questions. I would assume that’s valid to reject this completion as well. Many thanks in advance, Cory -- Stephen Cory Robinson cory.robinson@colostate.edu<mailto:cory.robinson@colostate.edu> Office: Clark C258A http://colostate.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/