05/23 - Thespian Thursday!

When you see a survey comment that says VERY NICE, it is very probable that they are not actual bots, just Indians or Venezuelans pretending to be Americans.

 

Memory Lab [A1A39T4EKQIE9K] Can you tell if an email is ok?(~ 30 minutes) - $4.50 | PANDA

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated

$25.76 / hour
00:10:29 / completion time

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Pros:
Part 2 in a couple of weeks, really nice pay, kind of fun, tells you your results

Cons:

Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 85; Location In US;

To read Memory Lab's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

I'm starting to see why @THFYM is normally chained up during the day

 

GOOD SURVEY
NICE PAY
HIGHLY ENJOYABLE

 

Title: Native speakers of any language, make 43 short recordings. (20190523_SY) | PANDA
Requester: Acme Data Collection [A3A1AJ4RPLTOLY]
TurkerView: [ $25.19 / hour ]
Description: Please answer a few demographic questions, then record yourself saying short phrases.
Duration: 240 Min
Available: 1
Reward: $2.60
Qualifications:

• Location EqualTo US,

[3OQEO5BIM1SPR61Y6VCPUB7UWKRU9I]​

 

Silly me. I've done one more Prolific survey (quick easy followup), 7m $1.42 ("hourly" $12).

Haven't forgotten yesterday's explications on why Prolific "sucks" — though I maintain that several of "my" other former survey platforms were objectively worse.

I've yet to become a proficient Turker so I can consistently make better hourly. (I'm a slow learner.)

One last note about Prolific. I appreciate that they provided informative unscripted replied to my questions. If, from a worker's perspective, MTurk Support has sometimes been described* as a "black hole", I assume that's because MTurk's massive scale makes it impractical for staff to personally reply to every one of the innumerable emails they receive. I can understand that, and it is one reason why I'd hesitate to email MTurk support unless I have a really urgent issue. Wouldn't wanna bother them with anything non-urgent.

* [Edited to add] — Apologies to ChrisTurk for the link and my misunderstanding of an old quote from a different context.

 

Thanks! I really appreciate it I've seen those terms thrown around a lot even recently, but this makes so much more sense!

I guess I'll email the requester and see what's up, since he seems to know what he's doing and is communicative.

 

Prolific is prob better than most of the other non mturk survey places but once you get a hang of mturk it is way better.

 

Susan Persky [ABHMPUAGTZEC0] Survey Questions (up to $2.40)(~ 1 minutes) - $0.05 | PANDA

Underpaid

Unrated

Unrated

$2.61 / hour
00:01:09 / completion time

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Pros:
screener for a survey

Cons:
I was screened out, but you might be eligible

Qualifications: Total approved HITs <= 500000; Exc: [-468581819-148537] DoesNotExist ; Location In US;

To read Susan Persky's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

@ChrisTurk

 

The Wharton School [ABIUW8FBC3EE7] Complete a 4-minute survey for $0.40 (bonus possible)(~ 4 minutes) - $0.40 $0.01 bonus | PANDA

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated

$16.58 / hour
00:01:29 / completion time

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Pros:
Possible bonus of up to .40. Entered .01 as a placeholder.

Cons:

Qualifications: Exc: [148608-148524] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 1000; HIT approval rate (%) >= 97; Location In US;

To read The Wharton School's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Title: Collect email | PANDA
Requester: Nelson Campos [ASSG4N6NECHVI]
TurkerView: [ $ / hour ]
Description: Search online for the staff member of the school provided and collect their email if it's available. This information is usually available at the school's website.
Duration: 5 Min
Available: 3,323
Reward: $0.02
Qualifications:

[3EHDCT959Y871I7A7UMLME42KSB0VI]​

 

Elise Chandon [ANRAX6GZBNWLG] Consumer Judgment Study 064 - $0.80 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$54.34 / hour
00:00:53 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Total approved HITs > 50; Location EqualTo US;

To read Elise Chandon's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Research Participation Uni Basel [A28NBG3WN4UX6L] Songs--Study Requires Working Headphones/Speakers (~ 5 minutes) - $0.50 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$13.24 / hour
00:02:16 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 100; Exc: [4382667-148501] DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Location In US;

To read Research Participation Uni Basel's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

150 yards away from me at all times

 

vicky pls

Spoiler: NSFW content

 

Glad you had a good experience & there is no way to find reports of the exact opposite despite Prolific being 1/100th the size & charging (30% more + conversion + sitting on stacks of cash from people who will never meet the minimum withdrawal amount) to provide such excellent support.

If you like Prolific, good for you. I crack many, many jokes about MTurk but Prolific is a vampiric craphole , so grabbing a wise crack from me about MTurk from 2 years ago is both weird and uncharacteristic of my POV of both platforms in the grand scheme of things. So, for clarity...

I: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/173317/
Hate: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/644197/
Prolific: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/956350/
A: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/978326/
LOT: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/978332/
Yes I'd do the same thing, tbh, so yes I am a hypocrite and would Tweet from that posh hipster office instead of mine if I could: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/978356/

...and so does TurkPrime: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/861563/
....who are better than bad: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/1089115/

I don't particularly care to have some post from 2 years ago quoted out of context for a discussion I have no part in.. but since you did there is a compendium of my thoughts on Prolific for you to peruse through since you have time

 

I got straight up hentai in one of the hits but CT would throw a rock at me if I posted it even with tags.

 

@LucusNon if you do have time to read all those posts about how garbage Prolific is, you have time to get better at turking.