Hello everyone,
Just wanted to share this little interaction. I got a rejection on a HIT that I remembered clearly and I emailed the requestor to please remove the rejection and that I answered the questions honestly and thoughtfully. I got this response:
We don't have any "bad" intentions in rejecting some HITs. Our goal is to gather high-quality responses for our scientific efforts. We pre-tested this survey by asking someone to "take it as fast as you can but also to pay reasonable attention to each question." The result? 247 seconds. Then we allowed a "grace" time of 20 more seconds, so our generous idea of a "thoughtful response time" was 227 seconds. You took 183 seconds. That is not terribly much too fast, I agree, but we have to draw the line somewhere. Many, many Workers took more than 247 seconds.
I write this with regret, but I repeat that we are just trying to collect data that we can feel confident in, to use in publications that we can stand behind when strict external reviewers assess our work.
So I emailed him back and said this:
That being said, can you please remove the rejection? I am not asking for the 2$. I take pride in maintaining my approval rate and I believe it has been over 2,000 HIT's since I have had a rejection. Especially since we are talking about 60 seconds.
Thank you,
I checked later on in the day and the rejection was removed and I got the 2$. Guess it's good to be persistent. Maybe they were worried I would just keep emailing them. Hahaha