There’s a common perception that Mechanical Turk thrives on exploiting 3rd world labor. This doesn’t appear to be the case. From: http://behind-the-enemy-lines

There’s a common perception that Mechanical Turk thrives on exploiting 3rd world labor. This doesn’t appear to be the case. From: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanical-turk-demographics.html http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanica... and http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2008/07/mechanical-turk-demographics.html http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2008/07/mechanical-turk-demogra... 82% of turkers are from the US, Canada or the UK and over 75% have a Bachelor’s degree or higher.