11/15 - Forgotten Friday!

So what are people thoughts on the article flooding the platform with new users?

 

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all you need to know

 

I thought this quote from the article was particularly disturbing and pitchfork worthy:
One requester I talked to has found MTurk quite effective. For a year, Ryan Schefke, the founder of a Texas company called Lead Liaison, has used turkers to transcribe business cards that salespeople collect at events. The contacts go into a database of sales prospects, a process known as “lead capture.”

Multiple turkers transcribe the cards to yield 99 percent accuracy, and the turnaround from the moment a customer scans a card is 10 to 12 minutes, Mr. Schefke said. A turker is paid 3 cents per card.

“Basically it’s set it and forget it,” he said. “It’s awesome.”

I mentioned that the one Lead Liaison task I did, transcribing a card covered in handwriting, took me 84 seconds, yielding an effective hourly wage of $1.29, and asked whether that was an issue for him.

“I don’t know why it would be relevant to us as a business,” he said. “The pay is per task, not hourly, and if a turker did one card and then went off to pick cotton in the field, that’s up to them. I actually think that’s pretty good wages. If you look at people in the Philippines or some other countries, it’s pretty good pay.” The minimum wage in Metro Manila is $1.17.

 

That really should be everyone's absolute last concern about the article tbh

 

A million people can apply to work on MTurk

Amazon will deny 999,999 of them until they actually need the bodies

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Fair $8/hr wage, please.

 

@NBadger pls

 

how am i supposed to pay taxes with 8/hr

20/hr or i protest

 

You'll owe less taxes.

 

It's only pitchfork worthy if those tasks have a US only qual on them, and even then every single worker on the platform has the option to ignore and block absolute garbage work. Don't like seeing it? Block it and move on.

 

but the garbage work is the only thing you can do on mturk, nobody else can make more than 4/hr on the platform!!!

 

spellcheck back please

 

The cotton comment is super fucking stupid to hand to a newspaper in 2019.. but he's right, there is nothing morally wrong with going and hiring someone outside the country at a fair wage in their area. Like come on, our entire country's economy is predicated on that being an option ffs.

 

The top 4% can!

 

Donald Lichtenstein [AKND1H9L9KUC0] Consumer Yogurt Preferences(~ 5 minutes) - $0.25 | PANDA

Fair

Unrated

Unrated

$8.74 / hour
00:01:43 / completion time

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Cons:

Qualifications: Exc: [182862-182273] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 98; Location In US;

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amazon could add a little note in their docs that tells them to use Location is not: US

but, no, it's on the platform, therefore it's my unalienable right to do that work and if it's not good I have the right to complain about it. /s