06/08 - Soothsayer Saturday!

Found this delightful doll in a 5.

Spoiler

 

Title: Draw online, upload the image. With bonus. ANYTHING YOU UPLOAD, TASK WILL BE APPROVED! | PANDA
Requester: Jason B Zhao [A3NY8UDGSCNTKG]
TurkerView: [ $ / hour ]
Description: Draw online or use any tool to make one art about why help refugees/immigrants (refugees/immigrants = good). ANYTHING YOU UPLOAD, TASK WILL BE APPROVED!
Duration: 600 Min
Available: 1
Reward: $0.07
Qualifications:

[3EGG3WLVB1NH2791AUNH508KUT1IXD]​

 

sigh. stupid doctor response rating hit. poops out when I'm mostly done.

 

There should be a best 5s product thread to put this in

 

It'd be full of sex toys.

 

ocmp has been around longer than me so I refuse to believe they didn't have a golden answers system in place already. That's how they've been able to detect and remove quals up to this point, right?

I'm paying close attention to the wording of the email:
"To mitigate the above problem we are introducing a feature to randomly check worker’s answers against our golden set while a batch is running."
I think that's the change as compared to before. Before they would run answers after they've gathered all the data. Now the answers will be ran against the goldens in real time, probably just giving them a larger headache than before.

This is pure conjecture

 

Title: Duplication Judgment | PANDA
Requester: Julian [A35PRKC2COB0ZD]
TurkerView: [ $15.97 / hour ]
Description: React quickly to briefly presented shapes. Takes up to 20 min. Please only participate if you have normal or corrected-to-normal vision, and if you haven't done Duplication Judgment before
Duration: 40 Min
Available: 3
Reward: $2.00
Qualifications:

• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95,
• Location EqualTo US,

[3L9I4IEGRADZI1Q5EDTI7KXFEXTY1W]​

 

Meghan McDarby [A1CIXX5P6626KB] Answer a survey about experiences in your life - $3.00 | PANDA

Underpaid

Unrated

Unrated

$9.13 / hour
00:19:43 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:
After getting through the bubbles & ACs, there is a 400 WORD writing assignment about a memory, the bad recall a time writing. Followed by more bubbles and ACs.

Qualifications: taken the survey 2x DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) > 98;

To read Meghan McDarby's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

https://psyarxiv.com/jq589
If anyone else is like me and wants a nice cozy bedtime story before you go to sleep, Turkprime published a preprint containing lots of juicy data about mturk

 

All I'm reading is "waaaah 5.7% of workers take *all* the work on the platform, we must stop them!" here.

 

5.7% of workers take 42.2% of all turkprime surveys is what they're saying I think

I'm just sitting here laughing at amazon
"How Big is the MTurk Worker Pool? ... What is clear from published papers is that even though Amazon advertises more than 500,000 registered workers the number of active workers is considerably smaller" get rekt

 

Also that study doesn't take into account at all how easy it is to get over 10k approved hits.

 

I'm currently ready the Vicki letter(s).
Thank You and Happy Working!
I'm gonna avoid telling this to my sales team at work now.

 

Title: Draw online, upload the image. With bonus. | PANDA
Requester: Jason B Zhao [A3NY8UDGSCNTKG]
TurkerView: [ $ / hour ]
Description: Draw online or use any tool to make one art against racism (racism = bad). ANYTHING YOU UPLOAD, TASK WILL BE APPROVED!
Duration: 1,440 Min
Available: 1
Reward: $0.10
Qualifications:

[3IOQH27Z2EU9C6O8312AAR4JPFFI1G]​

 

I don't know if I'd call it easy. It's practically impossible for survey takers which is what this data is zoning in on. Also most quit before they can, they're saying over half of turkeys on the platform are new each year. That's a lot of turkey turnover

 

mturk has a pretty steep learning curve, especially if you aren't likable enough to build a reliable spoonfeed network. It just seems like meaningless data to me, mostly because people from that side of the platform don't really understand how mturk works for people on the worker end.

 

It's more complicated than that too. Not only is there the worker side, but there's layers to it. Like a fucking onion lol. I bet you those authors have turked at some point but all they saw was the surface

 

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