01/08 - Monday's Meekly Mrap-Up

Title: Complete a 10 minute study for $1.00. NO SAFARI | PANDA Requester: The Wharton School [ABIUW8FBC3EE7] (Contact) (Req TV): $13.34/hr (TO): [Pay: 3.83] [Fair: 4.65] [Comm: 4.05] [Fast: 4.58] Description: Chat with other workers and answer survey questions Time: 45 minutes(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Polly_12_20_17_chat DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location EqualTo US;

 

AA [A2VG366WKT4CYB] short survey - $0.25 | PANDA

[3ZXRRTK2NDD9FN8KDEO32M08OALO1I]​

Good

Unrated

Unrated

$20.00 / hour
00:00:45 / completion time

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Pros:
Was indeed short and sweet
Cons:
inframe

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I think it's reasonable to assume that there are significantly more shady workers than shady requesters:



I've worked online since 2011, much of this time spent without any marketplace protections (true freelance, with most contacts developed through social site solicitations / other advertisements, and continued through email).

mTurk is an incredibly safe place to do work by default, without needing a system like TO.

But once again, I guess YMMV. This is coming from someone who has done mTurk for ~1/2 year, has ~60K approved, and has Masters.

 

Morning all!

 

All hail TurkerView!

 

Title: Watch a video and answer a survey about video journalism | PANDA Requester: Neil Thurman [A1X2FKZIS91GYG] (Contact) (Req TV): N/A (TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] Description: We are conducting a survey as part of a research project at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. You will be asked to watch a short news video and answer some questions on your opinion. Time: 15 minutes(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Location EqualTo US;

 

Title: 10-12 Minute Ad Evaluation Survey - $1.20(~ 10 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Matthew T Ballew [A2FU0KH3X22PL6] (Contact) (Req TV): N/A (TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] Description: We are asking participants to evaluate a film advertisement and take a survey. Participation will take about 10-12 minutes. Time: 1 hour(s) HITs Available: 35 Reward: $1.20 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [2199437-68807] DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location In US;

 

AA [A2VG366WKT4CYB] short survey - $0.25 | PANDA

[3ZXRRTK2NDD9FN8KDEO32M08OALO1I]​

Good

Unrated

Unrated

$11.54 / hour
00:01:18 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:
each question on a single page - even the simple demographic ones.

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So your suggesting majority of bad TOS are the result of angry workers who got rejected. Even in the case of horrible TOS that were provided by hundreds of workers.

Your comparing a customer complaint department to the TO system overall as if its the same thing. Apples and oranges. TO ratings are open for good or bad reviews. Seems like faulty logic.

Who knows, maybe you're right. But I don't think you are.

 

it's really hard sometimes especially with anxiety but damn you do you. git it

 

"Hundreds of workers" is such a tiny proportion of the people working on mTurk, especially when you consider the long time scale it takes to accumulate these "hundreds of workers".

There's also no identity verification, meaning that someone with a major axe to grind can post multiple reviews.

 

I would imagine a good approval rating is hard to keep when you are out there blindly doing work without using any safe guards.

 

But having been high-IQ my entire life, I'm accustomed to being right in spite of being in disagreement with the majority. It's a common scenario when you're smarter than the majority. The consensus of hundreds of wrong people means nothing to me.

It's really dangerous to give data to average people, because they're lulled into a false sense of confidence that they can tell what it means.

DUDE, just ick.. . Please tell me you're hiding under a bridge somewhere....

 

He's like, really smart.

 

Good morning

 

Yes of course its safe to suggest so seeing the number of workers far outweighs the number of requesters right? So if this system is incredibly safe to work without the help of rating systems, why were these systems even developed initially and why do they have such a large number of users>

 

Better watch out, this guy's really smart. He watches Rick and Morty and can code a basic tic tac toe game.

 

Fwiw over here, most of my 100+ days have been because of scared money. I've done work for requesters with no TO/TV at all and been just fine. I have a few rejects, sure, but nothng to drop me under 99%.


There are also people who do bad work and get rightful rejects. I mean, it happens more than you'd hope on a batch sometimes.

Things like TO and TV are good guides, but it would be silly to let it totally limit how you do your work or what work you do.