One of the drawbacks of Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a crowdsourcing website, is that:

A. it forces researchers to rely on college students as participants.
B. its workers are less educated than the general population.
C. its workers are deprived of compensation for their participation.
D. its workers are allowed to participate in a number of similar experiments.


Answer: D

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