Completing surveys and doing data entry for strangers online isn’t just a sideline. It appears to be key for many people to pay the bills. The primary purpose of the survey was to assess Turkopticon, ...

“Someone paid me like 50 cents to recall the most painful memory of my life.” Pennies for your sanity —The most interesting responses reported involved the graphic nature of training content ...

“A man is less responsible for rape if he is affected by drugs or alcohol.” I quickly clicked my mouse over to the right button, “Strongly Disagree.” My eyes burned. I had answered this question three ...

Researchers are paying people pennies to take their surveys on MechanicalTurk.com, an Amazon site. Researchers save time and survey-takers earn a... Post A Survey On Mechanical Turk And Watch The ...

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These days, most experimental consumer researchers (not to mention social psychologists, political scientists, behavioral economists, etc.) have replaced or supplemented student subject pools with ...

Shamik Ghosh had been picking up tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk for several months when he logged on in winter 2010 and saw a perplexing request: Someone wanted him to act out a series of Winter ...

These days, most experimental consumer researchers (not to mention social psychologists, political scientists, behavioral economists, etc.) have replaced or supplemented student subject pools with ...