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Interesting...I assumed that since Mechanical Turk is pitched as a cheap solution for baseline intelligent labor, the quality of people who are part of the netw
by Everest 17y ago
Interesting...I assumed that since Mechanical Turk is pitched as a cheap solution for baseline intelligent labor, the quality of people who are part of the network is very low. As a bit of context, we need users who are willing to write reviews of online authors and bloggers. Do you think the people at Mechanical Turk can write intelligent reviews of David Brooks or Steven Levitt?
- knightinblue 17y ago'baseline intelligent labor', 'the quality of people who are part of the network is very low' Some mighty elitist assumptions there. Don't assume anything. Do the actual work of checking it out for yourself. You could be surprised.
- Everest 17y agoSorry reading that post again, it was a little elitist. We've had a lot of trouble using services like Craigslist and I thought that the same type of people would be on Mechanical Turk