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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=1

• 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.