Canada spent $30,500 on polls to come up with a name. They changed the Future Skill Lab to Future Skills Centre. If only they knew about mturk where they could get name suggestions for a nickel a pop.
Title: Survey about email nudges! | PANDA Requester: Benjamin [A1OLTUBTYWD39V] (Req TV): N/A (TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] Description: Give us your opinion about our email contents, our job applicants and other jobs in general. You can earn more money depending on your answers! Time: 1 hour(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.60 Qualifications: Completed my surveys DoesNotExist ; Masters Exists ;
But then they'd have to hire a Naming Committee and pay them a penny or two each to pick the best one. These things mount up.
That much to run a poll? You put an ad in the local paper and people send replies to a post office box. Total price-- ad cost+ price of postal box, maybe someone to sort the replies
5 min - just realized there's no where to put the code. No box for a code. Requester replied apologizing and will approve it. Title: Short survey about your personality and your behaviors on Social Network Sites(~ 10 minutes) | Accept Requester: ICEA CAM lab [AMVTM55ZT3Z9H] Contact TV: [Hrly=$18.06] [Pay=4.20] [Fast=4.00] [Comm=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=3.70] [Fast=4.64] [Comm=4.20] [Fair=4.77] [Reviews=111] [ToS=7] TO2: [Hrly=8.96] [Pen=0.04 days] [Res=null] [Rec=100%] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 1.50 Duration: 7200 Available: 30 Description: Answer a short survey about your personality and your behaviors on Social Network Sites Qualifications: Exc: [97481-96892] DoesNotExist ; SurveyGroup [1295] DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 97; Location In US
Well it was run by the gov. They also spent $24k on 86 seat cushions this week. Which I guess when you think about it is cheap compared to a US military toilet seat.
Title: Solving English word puzzles (native English speakers only, all other will be rejected) | PANDA Requester: unsio [A3PSIDBOXKSKXC] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 0.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.67 Generosity ★★★★★ 0.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 0.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 5 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: In this study, you will be asked to solve some English word puzzles. There will be a practice session before the main study. In total, it will take about 10 minutes to finish the whole study ( practice + main study) Time: 3600 HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: unable to submit hit DoesNotExist ;Masters Exists ;HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95;Location EqualTo US10 minutes. Worked fine, which seems to be what people were complaining about on TO.
edit. 3 minutes. A bit of light writing. Title: Opinions survey - takes about 15 minutes | Accept Requester: Alec [A4FZ40WXXEWSO] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: [Pay=5.00] [Fast=0.00] [Comm=0.00] [Fair=0.00] [Reviews=2] [ToS=0] TO2: [Hrly=40.00] [Pen=null] [Res=null] [Rec=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 2.00 Duration: 3600 Available: 1 Description: - Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 1; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; Location EqualTo US
This took me close to 20 minutes. Note the 25 minute timer. Title: Short psychology questionnaire, 25 minutes total | Accept Requester: Joe Hoang [A9YGVHAKBNV9W] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: 2.50 Duration: 1500 Available: 27 Description: We are conducting a short questionnaire on social class. It should take 25 minutes total. Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location EqualTo US