05/14 - Tuned Tuesday!

MTurk Responses [AM8EADG1K0864] Picture-in-picture study - $0.40 | PANDA

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Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 1; HIT approval rate (%) >= 90; Location EqualTo US;

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You are doing Satan's work and for that we thank you.

 

I was going to ask how you didn't know about sticky keys, but you already answered my question.

 

how do you 'work hard' on c-sats

also I've been doing my part too

 

MacUser EqualTo 1;

 

Watching videos and clicking radio buttons is difficult, okay.

 

I'm just a ghost in Suri's machine, man.

 

I bet he cited the shit out of that paper that says turkeys only earn $2/hr on average and people making more than $7.25/hr are basically unicorns.

 

I'm 55 and I know about sticky keys. (-;

(I've been using Windows since 3.0. ... Win95 introduced sticky keys, although MacOS had it before.)

 

https://www.fastcompany.com/9034904...-the-ghost-workers-on-amazons-mechanical-turk

Joan is now among the 4 percent of MTurk workers who are skilled, practiced, and lucky enough to earn more than $7.25 an hour completing tasks.

 

If anyone is in Seattle I will pay you $100 to go kick him in the shins tomorrow.

That rate is absolutely negotiable since I'm kinda desperate.

 

Just got home and checked the new Amazon Bars.

It is pulling from their server. It knows the work I did on my work computer after they launched the bar, but nothing from before the launch.

And Kiddo does have a 101 fever. So he did take his AP test sick, though he says he feels pretty good about the test. We shall see. Nationally, only 54% of test takers get a 3 or better, which is the minimum to "pass" the AP test and get college credit.

He's currently writhing on the couch praying he doesn't have to go to school tomorrow but since he missed today I'm inclined to send him if the fever clears up.

 

>Joan intentionally chooses to do tens of thousands of hits that only pay .02c each and it is Amazon's fault she can barely make ends meet
That's how I'm reading this. Am I wrong? I feel like I'm not wrong here.

 

use your words Christopher

 

"Hypervigilance is a necessity for top earners."

"Joan arranged her web browser’s display of the MTurk dashboard to show 25 tasks or HITs at a time, and she uses keyboard shortcuts she created to flip through the pages quickly."

I'm mostly just shocked her name is Joan b/c that's different than the normal 2 people they re-use for these stories.

 

i love the dramatics:

"Joan turned a spare bedroom into a home office, crowding the small room with a weathered brown chair, computer desk, and large monitor. "

or just... like... sit on your couch with a laptop.

 

gosh you guys, not a weathered, brown chair. the horror.

this is like, 7th grade writing, tops.

 

This is always my problems with these fucking things.

Do people struggle on MTurk? Yeah, sure. Do they deserve help? I think so.

BUT JESUS FLIPPING PANCAKES CHRIST CAN WE JUST NOT?

 

Many tasks on MTurk require workers to have approval ratings of over 95 percent, so even one rejection can seriously affect a worker’s ability to earn money by limiting their access to future tasks.

How many regulars on mturk have such low approval that getting one reject takes them below 95%?