11/21 - Music for Airports Wednesday!

[ChristopherASA]

I don't get any emails from prolific except saying payment approved for a HIT. I find having a tab open is as technical as it gets for me. I get about £35 a over two weeks on average just by catching what I see. But it seems very flood or drought. Either I've loads or none.

I've heard that about keeping a tab open for them. Good advice. Thanks a lot for the input!!

 

[jan]

i found a couple of threads started by "niloufar" who identified themself as a stanford researcher interested in improving ethics standards. reading through those now (although the main issues seem to be related to the use of inquisit, & some study where the researcher wildly violated the tos by creating a ton of fake accounts)

I emailed him a few times about that incident. I'm going to look through my old email. Tribune was the one who uncovered the scam (the requester was scamming us by pretending to need our input - but was really experimenting on us).

 

[Michele]

Title: Native speakers of American English, LISTEN TO and TRANSCRIBE 20 short phrase audio files.(20181121_BLM_trans) | Accept Requester: Acme Data Collection [A3A1AJ4RPLTOLY] Contact TV: [Hrly=$23.07] [Pay=4.81] [Fast=null] [Comm=1.00] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=3.86] [Fast=4.23] [Comm=3.00] [Fair=4.69] [Reviews=130] [ToS=5] TO2: [Hrly=12.43] [Pen=2.00 days] [Res=0%] [Rec=67%] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=3] Reward: 1.50 Duration: 2:00:00 Available: 1 Description: PLEASE USE FIREFOX AND ALLOW PERMISSION FOR THIS HIT. No demographic questions, list to short phrases and transcribe them. Qualifications: Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.3​

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[jan]

i found a couple of threads started by "niloufar" who identified themself as a stanford researcher interested in improving ethics standards. reading through those now (although the main issues seem to be related to the use of inquisit, & some study where the researcher wildly violated the tos by creating a ton of fake accounts)

I had put a link to the original thread in my email (eons ago!) to niloufar
http://www.mturkgrind.com/threads/26950-CrowdClearinghouse-it-s-all-on-TO

It's on turkopticon (crowdclearinghouse)
Testing the Theory of Equalizing Differences Using Online Labor Market Experiments", lead researcher Claus Portner
Scroll down the turkopticon thread to people who gave it appropriate reviews. In my email I note much worse than decapitation. (I won't go through it here).

 

[Despairagus]

Something someone wrote here just a moment or two ago reminded me of Burl Ives. I'm just a bit weird, maybe.
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For some reason I get Burl Ives and Orson Welles crossed in my brain.

Burl Ives was the best Big Daddy there ever was, though.

edit: HAH maybe not so weird, just read this on Wikipedia about The Long, Hot Summer:

Orson Welles as Will Varner. The character was inspired by Big Daddy Pollitt from Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.[2] Welles' presence on the film was marked by multiple conflicts with director Martin Ritt. He agreed to take the role due to a tax debt of US$150,000; he stated years later, "I hated making Long Hot Summer. I've seldom been as unhappy in a picture"

 

[Michele]

I had to do this in Firefox like it requests so I didn't have the script for hourly, but it was quick, like less than 10 minutes I think.

Title: Native speakers of American English, LISTEN TO and TRANSCRIBE 20 short phrase audio files.(20181121_BLM_trans) | Accept Requester: Acme Data Collection [A3A1AJ4RPLTOLY] Contact TV: [Hrly=$23.07] [Pay=4.81] [Fast=null] [Comm=1.00] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=3.86] [Fast=4.23] [Comm=3.00] [Fair=4.69] [Reviews=130] [ToS=5] TO2: [Hrly=12.43] [Pen=2.00 days] [Res=0%] [Rec=67%] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=3] Reward: 1.50 Duration: 2:00:00 Available: 1 Description: PLEASE USE FIREFOX AND ALLOW PERMISSION FOR THIS HIT. No demographic questions, list to short phrases and transcribe them. Qualifications: Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.3​

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[Michele]

Title: Answer questions about English sentences | Accept Requester: Professor Runner [A1VIT1S63MO92C] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: [Pay=4.17] [Fast=4.33] [Comm=5.00] [Fair=5.00] [Reviews=6] [ToS=0] TO2: [Hrly=null] [Pen=1.00 days] [Res=100%] [Rec=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 3.30 Duration: 1:30:00 Available: 1 Description: Choose a person based on a sentence, and give a confidence rating for your answer. Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThan 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 98; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.3​

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[DareAngel3]

I had to do this in Firefox like it requests so I didn't have the script for hourly, but it was quick, like less than 10 minutes I think.

Less than 4 minutes, here :thumbup: but I'm sure it'll vary on the transcriptions. Mine were under 6 secs each.

 

[ChristopherASA]

For some reason I get Burl Ives and Orson Welles crossed in my brain.

Burl Ives was the best Big Daddy there ever was, though.

edit: HAH maybe not so weird, just read this on Wikipedia about The Long, Hot Summer:

Interesting about Long Hot Summer. It's on YT. Might have to watch that tonight.
Easy to confuse Welles and Ives because they have a very similar body type.

 

[Michele]

Had to write requester about what I think was a mistake in the study, so no time.

Title: Answer questions about English sentences | Accept Requester: Professor Runner [A1VIT1S63MO92C] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: [Pay=4.17] [Fast=4.33] [Comm=5.00] [Fair=5.00] [Reviews=6] [ToS=0] TO2: [Hrly=null] [Pen=1.00 days] [Res=100%] [Rec=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 3.30 Duration: 1:30:00 Available: 1 Description: Choose a person based on a sentence, and give a confidence rating for your answer. Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThan 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 98; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.3​

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[Michele]

Oh, hey The Whistler rejects were reversed.

 

[greg]

when i was a grad student we had to complete online training courses on ethics in research involving human participants every couple of years for our lab to maintain IRB approval. i don't exactly remember every single detail from those courses but i have a very hard time wrapping my head around how most of the shit that i hear about getting pulled on mturk squares with that

I can see that, if I know what you mean. I've completed studies that wouldn't have had a chance in hell of getting approved by our IRB.

 

[DareAngel3]

Had to write requester about what I think was a mistake in the study, so no time.

I saw on the TV reports that an attention check was broken, but mine seemed to work just fine- and I did see several A/Cs. So maybe it's fixed?

 

[Trucker]

Title: Answer questions about these 2 situations | Accept Requester: Cocolab at Princeton [A1N1YFYVJGJSBR] Contact TV: [Hrly=$17.59] [Pay=4.24] [Fast=5.00] [Comm=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=3.84] [Fast=4.84] [Comm=4.86] [Fair=4.79] [Reviews=165] [ToS=1] TO2: [Hrly=8.33] [Pen=0.62 days] [Res=null] [Rec=91%] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 2.25 Duration: 40:00 Available: 60 Description: In this 15 minute survey, you will give your opinion about attempts to explain 2 different situations Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.3​

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[Michele]

I saw on the TV reports that an attention check was broken, but mine seemed to work just fine- and I did see several A/Cs. So maybe it's fixed?

yes, without giving too much away, that's what the issue was for me

 

[KYKITTY]

I'm back, been in the kitchen last couple of hours. Brown sugar ham with pineapple is in the oven. Chicken for dressing cooking. Pie shells ready for filling. Going to be chopping onions and celery between hits if there are any. Time for a cold one. Forgot puppy chow in the crockpot.

 

[Trucker]

Title: Say or type 5 different sentences (2 minutes) | Accept Requester: Justin Macorin [A21RRBRQMMS0BW] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: No Reviews TO2: [Hrly=9.60] [Pen=1.00 days] [Res=100%] [Rec=null] [Rej=0] [ToS=0] [Brk=0] Reward: 0.40 Duration: 7:00 Available: 1 Description: Input 5 different ways a user would say yes or respond positively to a question using speech or text. Qualifications: US High School Graduate EqualTo 1; Masters Exists [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.4.3​

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[Kennedy]

Afternoon all! Busy day cleaning toilets and other various fun things this morning. Here at work wanting to choke out some of the operators that are playing their music WAAAAAAAYYYY too loud. I get it's right before the holiday but the rest of us don't want to jam out to your shitty music. Luckily, this group goes home in half hour so I don't have to be an ass and say something.
On the other hand, caught a few hits since I've gotten to work and is it wrong that I keep hoping they say already completed because I don't want to do anything, but feel compelled to "try" anyway?

 

[ChristopherASA]

Afternoon all! Busy day cleaning toilets and other various fun things this morning. Here at work wanting to choke out some of the operators that are playing their music WAAAAAAAYYYY too loud. I get it's right before the holiday but the rest of us don't want to jam out to your shitty music. Luckily, this group goes home in half hour so I don't have to be an ass and say something.
On the other hand, caught a few hits since I've gotten to work and is it wrong that I keep hoping they say already completed because I don't want to do anything, but feel compelled to "try" anyway?

That's a LOT of internal conflict for one day.

 

[tricker]

when i was a grad student we had to complete online training courses on ethics in research involving human participants every couple of years for our lab to maintain IRB approval. i don't exactly remember every single detail from those courses but i have a very hard time wrapping my head around how most of the shit that i hear about getting pulled on mturk squares with that

I have had this issue a few times. My grad program was heavy research so we constantly had to do ethics training and were highly educated on what researchers did in the past that created the need for these ethics programs, ICs, IRBs, etc. (Some of those experiments from the past, wtf? I was a psychology student so we obviously studied the obvious ones like Milgram, but some of the lesser known ones...I mean, seriously, wtf? And people say "morals" were better in the past. NO THEY WEREN'T!!!)

I recall being super pissed at one requester who did this thing were he would release a code to one person that would allow other people to access his well paid surveys and track how that "release" of "resources" went via the forums, etc. No caretaking, no oversight, no IC for those of us who didn't get the code but were a part of the experiment anyway. That dude pissed me off hardcore.