07/12 - Thimble Thursday!

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Spent 20 minutes on a diabetes survey and it starts me all over after I finish the last question

 

Happened to me about 15 times randomly - thankfully was all towards the beginning. However, all my answers were filled in already, so I just zoomed through it using the continue buttons.

 

At my other job and was trying to do a few hits on my phone. I forgot what the worker page looked like without a block list. It was all just 20bn & extsurveys

 

Think of mTurk like a game. Incremental improvements in speed/efficiency, when added up, create a massive advantage over other players.

If I can press 1 on my keyboard and have 3 different buttons clicked in a HIT, and you have to click all 3 of those yourself, I'm working at 3x your speed minimum.

"Coding" generally opens up avenues to improve your workflow through automated means, QoL improvements (I can focus on a task much longer than a counterpart who has to fatigue themselves scrolling, looking for things manually [highlighting text, condensing instructions, or outright reformatting CSS/page styling for 'hard to read' tasks, etc etc]), etc etc etc. Its exceptionally powerful stuff, but the downside is you a) have to learn it & b) have to lose time actually working to code w/e it is you want to do, whereby you're always balancing ROI of your programming time versus someone who can just grind something while you're in an IDE/text editor.

And at this point, because of the above, the ROI is very, very difficult to make back in a lot of situations because the base level of publicly available tools has become so high. What will you spend your time coding that will bring immediate value to "pay" for your training time? The only really unfleshed out venue is HIT specific improvements, and those don't have exceptional ROI in a lot of cases because they will be one-off use cases in the majority of instances.

Sorry the above is kind of an answer to your question plus my ramblings on why I don't think as many people are picking up coding as they used to.. but that's not to say you shouldn't, its just something that you should really look at & kind of judge the value/cost to doing IMO nowadays.

 

This forum needs a MUY CALIENTE Y PICANTE button. it could be a red hot chili emoji

 

My 'coding' is just frankensteining shit together till it will throw shit at the wall and maybe work? It does help but as you said, I've now lost time on task because I was 'coding' and maybe the tasks are fucking gone depending on how long it takes you. But it can be handy!

 

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I gotcha. I would love to learn, but I never took any kind of classes like that and have only a basic understanding from working on websites. I'd be pretty much starting from scratch and not have a clue as to where to even start. I would definitely need a "coding for dummies" book lol

 

https://turkerhub.com/threads/learning-to-script-amt-hits.142/

 

I agree with this clipped quote

Here is my today:

I started in earnest just after 7am. I took maybe 40 minutes of break time, got up to go to the bathroom. Really started 'wandering' around 3:30PM

I'd say a good 9.5 hours solid, over 11 hours.

If you go with 9.5 hours of solid working, that's $5.54/hr

If you go with the 11 hours I've been working, as in what I would consider working on my Pro job, Network Computing, that's:

$4.79/hr

I'd consider myself middle-of-the-road in terms of skill development.

 

Hi there sexy lady (based on your avatar, and I am a female, I can say it, no harassment. Right?) but I do not know what "MUY CALIENTE Y PICANTE" means anyway.

 

Very hot and spicy

 

donde esta la biblioteca

 

Very hot & spicy