06/09 - Stretching Sunday!

LOL I think I posted that today

 

I'd love to see a study on how fast mtruks can spot an attention checks. I swear I get the 'out of the ordinary' feeling before I've even started reading just by the shape or the unusual point at which a question is posed.

 

I was bingewatching I, Claudius

 

somewhere in my brain, for example, there is a series of neurons that light up with things like "select agree" or "if you are reading"

 

We're good at it:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-015-0578-z

 

Awesome... I sometimes look into the studies I'm involved in (psych degree here)

 

And rejection overturned! Was not expecting my message to result in anything (last time I wrote a student for an absurd rejection reason, I got zero response), but I'll take it.

Amazing how often requesters don't seem to try to think through the basics of who they're looking to hear from or how they'll ask qualifying questions before they post a survey.

 

Sidenote: You actually pay attention to this, eh?

That makes me really happy...

 

I read every study on/about MTurk I can get my hands on

It has drastically reduced my faith in US institutions of higher learning.

 

Can I interest you in a Captcha?

Turkerview.com

 

That's terrible, and I likely agree.

 

drastically reduced my faith in US institutions of higher learning

Your college acceptance wasn't what caused that?

 

No, hearing of my college acceptance caused that.

 

I thought it would be rude to say so!

 

Let's be real here, the fact that WVU is considered a college is good enough reason for 98% of the population to question what's up.