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Andy Baio did this last year with the additional task of including "why do you turk?" http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/ http://waxy.org/200
by paulgerhardt 17y ago
Andy Baio did this last year with the additional task of including "why do you turk?"
http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/ http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/
Interesting to see how the demographic has shifted in that time period.
Regarding the bit about crowd-sourcing ideas; Andrew Hyde used Turk to solicit startup-ideas:
http://andrewhy.de/using-mechanical-turk-for-ideas/ http://andrewhy.de/using-mechanical-turk-for-ideas/
- eru 17y agoOr time of the day?
- paulgerhardt 17y agoAndy Baio's project took place over the course of 3 days; it's not explicitly stated how long this task took to complete though given how high the pay was (relatively) I could see this job filling up in an hour. (Edit: or 3 hours - pay seems to be a large factor, I wonder if by paying less one gets more people who do the task out of boredom rather than necessity and how that correlates to quality of results.)
- mindstab 17y agoIt could have something to do with the time the job was created. As the author mentioned in a comment, after 3 hours the job kinda died. So If he posted it in peak hours for India, than it's not surprising that most of the respondents were Indian, while the fellow from your link may have posted it in peek hours for a more "white" timezone. What we really need I supposed is one of these every hour for 24 hours. Then we'll get a better idea of the demographics of MTurk.