07/19 - Fixer Friday!

Most first timers have absolutely no clue. It's a little better nowadays than when TV first started, but TO has always been insanely niche because it doesn't send results out to Google.

TV has a habit of popping up on researcher searches for Google so it's a little more common for them to figure it out on down the line but I'd say most, coming into it, have no clue.

Most of the time the pay slash is because the data they get back is.. dubious at best. See how those HITs have no quals? Yeah, they got a bunch of bullshit in their first result set and are now trying to fix the data.. and probably failing

 

Days of Thunder WISHES it could have been as good as Top Gun!

That being said,

 

Shadi Beshai [A1VS9I4XUUYC9U] 5 Week Self-Help Psychological Intervention - Week 1(~ 15 minutes) - $2.50 | PANDA

Low

Unrated

Unrated

$7.16 / hour
00:20:57 / completion time

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Pros:
Got to kinda calm down and relax for a bit

Cons:
3 videos one was 4 minutes the next was 6 minutes and the last was 5 minutes.
Makes you dedicate a time to practice more.

Qualifications: Inc: [19-159597] Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) >= 20; Location In AU, CA, GB, NZ, US;

To read Shadi Beshai's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Paul Stillman [A39UZTUQL4ADKA] Food choices(~ 2 minutes) - $0.25 | PANDA

Generous

<24 hours

Unrated

$16.98 / hour
00:00:53 / completion time

Approved! ​

Pros:

Cons:

Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 94; Location In US;

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pmcgraw [ABA0TJ2Y875G3] Market Test(~ 2 minutes) - $0.25 | PANDA

Generous

<24 hours

Unrated

$22.50 / hour
00:00:40 / completion time

Approved! ​

Pros:

Cons:

Qualifications: Exc: [5091183-159610] DoesNotExist ; Location In US;

To read pmcgraw's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Hi, I'm new here but been a turker awhile. I didn't do Victoria Reznyk for a long time (didn't turk for awhile) then started trying to again a month or two ago. But now those hits are so slow to load for me every time (like 30 seconds to a minute or more for a new hit to load). Back when I used to do them long ago, they loaded a lot more quickly. It makes doing them not worth it when they load so slow now but I still see them going down quickly like people are doing a lot of them.

Do these hits load this slow for everyone? Or is it something maybe wrong with my computer? Thanks.

 

It is the Victoria server.

 

PsychLabAtBC [A10M90Y8PUKQ1E] Two-part psychology survey - $1.00 $6.01 bonus | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$20.55 / hour
00:20:28 / completion time

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Pros:
$6 completion bonus + another unspecified bonus

Cons:
Timed pages

Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) >= 93; Location EqualTo US;

To read PsychLabAtBC's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Shadi Beshai [A1VS9I4XUUYC9U] 5 Week Self-Help Psychological Intervention - Week 1(~ 15 minutes) - $2.50 | PANDA

Fair

<24 hours

Unrated

$7.27 / hour
00:20:38 / completion time

Approved! ​

Pros:
The actual survey part was quick and easy. Mostly passive.

Cons:
First, a 4+ min video explaining what depression/anxiety/stress are. Then a few bubbles, a nearly 7 min video explaining what mindfulness it, then a 5 min guided meditation.

Qualifications: Inc: [19-159597] Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) >= 20; Location In AU, CA, GB, NZ, US;

To read Shadi Beshai's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Hey you, You're breathing!

 

Thanks. Well I guess it's semi permanent then since it's always that slow now. I'm just surprised the batches go down so fast. Did they give a lot of other turkers the qual and overload on workers or something?

 

Consumer Research [A2YST8EB5DRHDJ] Extremely Short (2 Question) Survey (earn $.10) - $0.10 | PANDA

Good

Unrated

Unrated

$10.59 / hour
00:00:34 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Location EqualTo US;

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He had such a nice voice! I wanted to appreciate the meditation but I was just lowkey annoyed at the pay the whole time...

 

I think lots of people have it. They would be decent if the servers did not suck.

 

Yeah, they used to be great back in the day if you could deal with the monotony of the hits. They even went from two items per hit to one so basically doubled the pay, but they're so slow now it doesn't matter.

 

Second most overrated qual on mturk, only superseded by "this hit only pays like $4/hr because of the time you spend cherrypicking"

 

wtf! I wonder if there were different conditions or something because I did read it and definitely did NOT notice that. that sounds basically impossible.

 

Thank you! Like it was calming and nice but damn 7/hr?

 

There must have been because we took the same study and mine didn't have that stipulation either.

 

--cough--VRAPI---cough ??

I've decided I'm going to try for that qual next time it posts months from now, though. I didn't have enough time the last couple of times it posted.