04/04 - More Fours For Monday!

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Can't get beans for hits today it seems.. Guess I'll pad my numbers with A9 for a dollar.
 

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I wasn't trying to be snotty or anything, I just didn't know if it was considered an ethnic group. Just wanted to clarify that :)
I didn't think so! this whole ethnicity vs. race thing confuses me quite a bit. Years ago, it was very clear that my race is caucasian and my ethnicity is irish/catholic and ashkenazi jewish
So, I'm always puzzled by these surveys saying my ethnicity is white. that's part of my culture (I am white) - but that's not ethnicity.........

anyway, that's sort of one of those things that I think might be changing in popular culture (and will? eventually change in academic circles).
 

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I restarted my computer and 1min 30sec keep being added. I tested turk on a clean profile of firefox and no problem!
 

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I'm not sure what you mean by paying less than it's worth. If people do the HITs, it's worth it to them (assuming they have some knowledge of the pay rate, either after having tried some of a batch or seeing a time estimate in a survey). And if people don't do the HITs, they don't get done.
By "less than it's worth," I mean much less than you could expect to hire someone to do the work for you in a more traditional manner.

The selling points of crowdsourcing are:

1. It's fast
2. It's cheap

This comes with a major downside of having to deal with serious quality control issues. If you were planning to start a project via crowdsourcing, the benefits would have to outweigh that -- and so you see even would-be decent requesters pushing the limits on how low they can pay while still getting the work done on time.

Unfortunately people are desperate enough to reward those using this strategy.
 
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