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I hope I'm not sounding offensive. But what is the author trying to prove here? It's a well known fact that majority of the people on mechanical turk come from

I hope I'm not sounding offensive. But what is the author trying to prove here? It's a well known fact that majority of the people on mechanical turk come from developing / under developed countries.

SwellJoe 17y ago
I didn't think there was any commentary on where the people are from. Did I miss something?
- socratees 17y ago
  I didn't mean to be on the offensive side or to start an argument. I was just asking a question. Refer the author's reply. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1010388 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1010388
  - SwellJoe 17y ago
    No one has accused you of being on the offensive side, I don't think, and I wasn't arguing with you. I just didn't see any indication that this project had much to do with the location of participants. So, I just wasn't sure what you were getting at with your "But what is the author trying to prove here?" query, since it seemed to me that the guy was just trying out Mechanical Turk and documenting the results, without any social or political commentary that I could perceive. It doesn't seem like he was trying to prove anything.
justinhj 17y ago
Does the author say anything at all about race or country? Besides most of them seem to be from USA.
- jules 17y ago
  They are lying, however: http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=33 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=33 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=34 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=34 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=35 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=35
  - KirinDave 17y ago
    Good catch.
    - visakhcr 17y ago
      Yup. It's the same room in all three pics. Also, it seems like the same pen is used.
hga 17y ago
What he proved is that with $100 and some imagination he could learn a lot about Mechanical Turk. As a bonus, he got some nice smiles out of the process ^_^.

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I hope I'm not sounding offensive. But what is the author trying to prove here? It's a well known fact that majority of the people on mechanical turk come from

by socratees 17y ago

I hope I'm not sounding offensive. But what is the author trying to prove here? It's a well known fact that majority of the people on mechanical turk come from developing / under developed countries.

SwellJoe 17y ago
I didn't think there was any commentary on where the people are from. Did I miss something?
- socratees 17y ago
  I didn't mean to be on the offensive side or to start an argument. I was just asking a question. Refer the author's reply. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1010388 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1010388
  - SwellJoe 17y ago
    No one has accused you of being on the offensive side, I don't think, and I wasn't arguing with you. I just didn't see any indication that this project had much to do with the location of participants. So, I just wasn't sure what you were getting at with your "But what is the author trying to prove here?" query, since it seemed to me that the guy was just trying out Mechanical Turk and documenting the results, without any social or political commentary that I could perceive. It doesn't seem like he was trying to prove anything.
justinhj 17y ago
Does the author say anything at all about race or country? Besides most of them seem to be from USA.
- jules 17y ago
  They are lying, however: http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=33 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=33 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=34 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=34 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=35 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=35
  - KirinDave 17y ago
    Good catch.
    - visakhcr 17y ago
      Yup. It's the same room in all three pics. Also, it seems like the same pen is used.
hga 17y ago
What he proved is that with $100 and some imagination he could learn a lot about Mechanical Turk. As a bonus, he got some nice smiles out of the process ^_^.