On these rnr's where they ask which image you would be more interested to see, is there a right answer they are going for, or do they just want to know our subjective preferences? It's so different from the pron ones where they have a whole laundry list of instructions.
There are really weird ones though.. one time the image was a screw, the 2 images below it are a roof and an oar..
Is anyone ever going to touch Tetrio's HITs after all that bulll**** that happened before? lol It doesn't seem like the number is going down.
I agree with Nanaki - a bunch of surveys you'll see here will have ask you in the informed consent to dedicate your attention and time to that survey alone (especially academic surveys). Some might ask you to full-screen the survey, others will ask you to turn off music, move to a quiet area, etc. In a perfect world, each psych study posted would be taken just like in the lab - with the turker completely focused on the task at hand (we take away your phones, put you in a locked room, maybe give you sound-proof headphones and lock your computer on the task window). Of course, this isn't a perfect world (there are tons of distractions on our end), and with the low pay many participants must work in a different environment than the researcher desires. As for saving your prompt responses, it's not a big issue as long as you think through - really remember - what they are asking you about. Writing it out is the best way to do that. The researchers will never know if you were jamming out to a song during a thought exercise or grinding on two other tasks during a memory game - and as long as you pass the ACs, it's money in your pocket - but it could also mean your data has pulled their findings that much further from a significant result. It's on your end as a participant in a government-funded or academic study to adhere to the terms you agree with at the beginning of the survey (the rule is to not share survey content, but that isn't always the only rule). As for batches - well, I have a script on hand for almost every one I do ;D I can hopefully get a research project through our IRB next Spring - but I'll have to explain how I can eliminate the variance due to each and every turker's work environment and strategy. That usually means needing more data, which means exceeding the budget... which means going in-house for the full study. I can hopefully at least get a small grant for a pilot study on here. In my ideal world, mturk would be populated with hundreds of government-funded and academic surveys paying way more than the 0.10/minute threshold - but both the workers and the researchers have to improve their methods before that can become a reality. I am really optimistic and think MTurk can be an awesome tool for data collection in all sorts of fields - education, psychology, business, econ - as well as market research. But a lot of IRBs, like mine, really don't see the potential of online research - and it's my burden to design each measure in a way that the online worker could clearly experience the effects of my manipulations (ie: priming) regardless of the innumerable differences between each participant's testing environment. Inquisit is one answer to that problem but it's pretty buggy. TLDR: Here's a picture of my cats on a cat tower that OCMP bought for them:
Yeah there are more like that in this batch...thinking of stopping because I don't want to lose my qual to 51/49 majority.
yes and the dude was a prick. That being said, all of mine approved but I had to lobby him towards not mass rejecting mine because of his poor instructions.
Title: Attitudes and Personality Survey Requester: Routledge Lab [A3QOTLAOE93E7M] (TO) Description: Personality survey Reward: $0.15 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 90, Location is US Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2KGW3K4F0OHR94BW9CBOCL93PEG01R [size=-2]Powered by non-amazonian script monkeys [/size] 30 seconds
LOL... Your best bet is to ignore it and make that money. I put'em on Ignore and started doing the same to everyone that's not posting hits, discussing Amazon, or ways to make more money. I was using this forum as just a break throughout my work-day-nights. It's turned into a forum with many great turkers, helpful people, and a bunch of kids I think are just spamming the forum. Half of them I don't even think are working or making money, it's as if their getting paid to act worse than my four year old does, except behind a computer, which makes it even more childish. As long as you've been a moderator, you should know what kind of people hide behind a computer and talk out of their mouth. Just worry about making money, improving yourself, and put'em on IGNORE. Maybe the fellow will make enough to pay for his daycare at the end of the month with his forum spamming.