Yep, there's always going to be a new batch of schlubs stumbling upon this mechanical jerkfest wanting in on the action. I always love when one of 'em cracks and comes on here crying about how they just can't hack it. The site logs them out, goddamn captchas get in the way, some son of a b*tch wasted their time with a lengthy screener. And wah wah wah. That's why it takes brass balls to persevere at this racket.
Pretty sure it's this guy, not affiliated with a university http://clearvoiceresearch.com/author/dmitry-rashnitsovoceansideten-com/ In better news, Stanford Psychology Study approved my spite-submit for a broken survey and sent me $2 Amazon credit for my trouble.
Dmitry isn't with any university as stated above. No university would let him get away with what he does. On the other hand Amazon loves this guy and champions him because they don't give a shit about us.
It figures. Oh well. I have never wanted to get back at someone before. I suppose that I have to change my answers on all these surveys now when it asks me that. haha
I think you're wrong about the guy. His website says it all: Our research panels meet or exceed the Code of Standards set forth by the Council of American Survey Research Organizations.
Can someone tell me why Mirador doesn't let me look at butts of vaginas or peni or nipples? I passed the test for the newest ones but didn't even get to do one hit of anything other than the butts and it says "no more hits". Do they have me blacklisted for some reason I am clueless to?
My bad. I think I'll spend 4 hours baking him some cookies tomorrow. (and then take them away from him after he starts to eat one!)
Not that I really want to look at some of these nasty warty ball sacks. But... I'd like the option and it's been taken away from me lol
Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk, You've received a bonus from Sean McCoy for work related to 33N1S8XHHMM23X7E3QLRMSZIHDG1ZO. The value of your bonus is: $1.60 USD The Requester included this note: Hi. Thank you for completing our experiment. As promised, your bonus has been sent along with this message. If you have any questions about how it was calculated or believe I have made a mistake, please let me know (email: semccoy@vassar.edu). Everything in this experiment was real; psychology experiments often lie to participants, but this is not so much the case in economics. The bonuses you received reflect your decisions in the experiment, you were actually taking them from real people, and those people were compensated less as a result of your actions. They did not have the ability to retaliate by taking back from you. But don’t feel bad! You were playing the role we intended, and everyone was hopefully compensated well for their time. You can search “dictator game” if you’re interested in the basic idea of games where one player controls all the decisions, but more specifically, you were playing a modified “power-to-take game.” The randomness that was present in several parts of the experiment served to have you respond truthfully in all three rounds since you did not know which round would ultimately earn you your bonus. The three rounds also let us study your explanations and behavior over time. The purpose of this experiment was to analyze how people behave when they are (and aren’t!) thinking about explaining themselves given varying degrees of information. Often, we find that explanations can be telling as to what people are thinking and how they choose to portray their actions to others; in a sense, we are all “dictators” when it comes to explaining ourselves because we choose how we put ourselves forward. For example, if the CEO of BP apologizes publicly for an oil spill, is he likely saying one thing while actually feeling another? Would he actions stay the same over time, or would the story change depending on when and how he was able to tell it? Is there a strategy in the way we explain ourselves, and does it differ depending on the kind of explanation we choose to make? And perhaps most venturesomely, can we predict people’s true thoughts, to some extent, based on their explanations and actions? These are all interesting questions, and your responses are helping us investigate them. So for this we thank you. Thanks for being a Worker on Mechanical Turk! Damn. This dude explained it all.
holy cow. I received a very lengthy response attached to a bonus payment. I had made a comment that I didn't believe I was actually playing a game with real people since so many surveys lie to us. They read that and responded to it. I have to say that impressed me!
I'd say posting all of that was spoiling the guys study but you're protected by the fact that nobody is going to sit down and read it start to finish
Well nevermind, they didn't reply just to me ROFLMAO I assumed it since I did make a comment about it in my survey comments Now I feel silly.
MELI has been one of if not the biggest scammers on the site for a long time and Amazon doesn't even kick him off. Plus he sets up his name to look official.
"You might be screened out at the 1 minute mark or the 39 minute mark". LOL, if I got screened out at the 39 min mark of a 40 min survey you better believe I would still be getting some $.