It is more common than you realize. Turkers are all over the place in psychology, sociology, machine learning, etc. It's something of a methodological issue: Turkers are extremely convenient and cheap, but they are also not necessarily representative of any realistic population, and the data can be absolute garbage sometimes... but at other times, they're great and they get you results at 1/10th or better the cost, so you can't just write off Turk entirely. Too useful to not use a lot, too dangerous to use blithely.
