I did 185 HITs @0.00 for William West. They were like make-up HITs. Except it was my make-up to him, not his to me.
Title: News Article Bias Evaluation Requester: William West [AVSS3NMRITTDU] (TO) TO Ratings: ***** 4.00 Communicativity ***** 5.00 Generosity ***** 5.00 Fairness ***** 5.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 2 (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Read two news articles and answer brief questions about the relative amount of bias in each article. Reward: $0.45 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is greater than 500, News Article Bias Evaluation (Qualification Test) is 100, HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95, Location is US Not sure whether I'm quite ready to get back on that horse, but he's a good Requester. These are the same HITs that were originally 0.50. Last week they were 0.40.
I feel they should pay more. I thought they needed more money for these hits per time spent. BUuutt that is just me. Also who is buying me my summer sausage gift basket.
heh. I managed to do a few in 40 seconds (elapsed, not including reading articles from a preview), and at first he thought I couldn't possibly have read and retained the information in such a short time, so he offered to reject me. Shades of Jenna Emery! We had a polite exchange, and I'm pretty sure that he will never think that again about me .. .. but in the process, I found out that the way he really wanted them done wasn't the way I had been doing them. So I did 185 all over again. It took about nineteen hours, but I did get some sleep.
I was just trying to put the bear to sleep. If this is about my nipples, yesterday,,,that was not explicit,,,only suggestive.
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(1) He wants an expression of relative, rather than absolute bias. So two articles might be horribly slanted, but if they tilt to the same direction in the same degree, he wants them judged as if they were both without bias. (2) In another forum, Mr. West had emphasized that direct quotations should not be regarded as part of the article's editorial bias, even if all the quotations were taken from biased sources on a single side of the issue. Turns out that a more subtle touch was required: I am allowed -- nay, expected -- to get a little inside the head of the author and determine why the quotations were selected. I had no problem at all with the usual spectrum of US politics (liberal vs conservative). My biggest problems were on things like sensationalist bias. To me, 95% of the media are sensationalistic anyway, and it was hard for me to decide how many bloody flags waving were equal to a certain number of bodies stacked like cordwood.
new thread: http://mturkforum.com/showthread.php?11342-Can-t-Find-Great-Hits-12-07-Sailing-onwards-Saturday!!!
Wait he wanted relative bias? HE SAID NOTHING LIKE THAT ON THE HIT!!! Besides that I gues I was doing the okish then. I use to deal with articles. So most stories were not really sensationalized but some were. They put a lot of useless words in an article to get your emotions riled up. Too bad that doesnt work in the american public anymore.