Config.txt

Config.txt stores all psiTurk's configuration info. You can edit this file directly instead of using dashboard, but unpredictable results can occur by using them both simultaneously.

AWS Access

• aws_access_key_id: AWS access key provided by Amazon
• aws_secret_access_key: AWS secret access key provided by Amazon

HIT Configuration

• title: experiment name
• description: brief description of task
• keywords: list of keywords
• question_url: URL pointing to experiment's server
• max_assignments: number of participants
• hit_lifetime: time for ad to run on MTurk
• reward: pay in dollars for each HIT
• duration: max time to perform task, in hours
• us_only: {1, 0} 1 for US only, 0 for global
• approve_requirement = [1, 100] workers' percentage of previously accepted HITs
• using_sandbox = {True, False} True for debugging in sandbox, False for the live Amazon server.

Database Parameters

• database_url: URL of database
• table_name: name of table to place experiment data

Server Parameters

• host: URL of experiment server
• port: port of experiment server
• cutoff_time: max time time to finish task
• support_ie: {0, 1} 1 support Internet Explorer, 0 block Internet Explorer
• logfile: file to log server messages
• loglevel:
• debug: {True, False} log debug messages? Note, dangerous to use outside of local debugging.
• login_username: database login
• login_pw: database password

Task Parameters

• code_version: current version of your code
• num_conds: number of conditions
• num_counters: number of counterbalancing variables