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Survey Groups

A survey group is a set of surveys that you want TurkGate to control access to. Once a worker has accessed one of the surveys, TurkGate will block them from accessing any other surveys in the same group. If necessary, the TurkGate administrator can enable a worker to access the survey group by removing their previous access entry from the database.

Each group has a name, which can be any reasonable length string of alphanumeric characters and spaces (but not tabs or other whitespaces). There are a couple things to consider when choosing a name for your group of surveys. First, workers will see the group name. Therefore, avoid using a name that reveals hypotheses you are testing or other information you don't want your survey participants to know. Second, it is important to avoid accidentally sharing a group name with another researcher. If your TurkGate installation serves a large number of researchers, we recommend coordinating a naming convention to avoid this. For example, group names could have two words, where the first word is unique for each researcher and the second word distinguishes different groups run by the s