07/07 - Fidgety Friday!

[Squatty]

Title: Survey about health and opinions | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Kristin Maki [A4CVOVKXEON9Q] (Contact) TO 1: Not Available TO 2: Not Available Description: This study asks you to respond to survey questions and read a health-related message. Time: 2 hours HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Location is US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.11​

 

[ctraltDel]

Title: Survey about health and opinions | PANDA Requester: Kristin Maki [A4CVOVKXEON9Q] (Contact) (TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] Description: This study asks you to respond to survey questions and read a health-related message. Time: 2 hours HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Location is US;

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[SweetiePuff]

Again would like to objectively summarize the effects of most recent batch throttle!

- Batch lasted 7 minutes instead of 4
- Worker pool increased, presumably, by an amount that is either literally zero or limited to Masters who found the work during the marginal 3 minute increase of the life of the batch AND didn't give up due to throttled HIT acceptance
- Minutes of my time wasted = less HITs completed on Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Server requests required to do 25 HITs increased from 50 to nearly 400
- Anger

Am I missing something? How does this make sense?

Not limited to just your post ... but how I usually feel with posts like these

 

[blackpupjean]

Boy, i'd sure whether do Mturk even if I have to work more hours to get the same pay as Walmart than have to work at Walmart. But I wouldn't give up my day job to do Mturk.

 

[Vanyanka]

Man, it's really tricky for me to make a variable income budget. My brain doesn't seem to work like this.

 

[coffeeowl]

PROLIFIC STUDY Title: Academic Survey 2 Hosted by : Mary Marshall Reward : £ 2.00 Avg. Reward Per Hour : £9.24/hr Available Places : 8/160 Maximum Allowed Time : 50mins Avg. Completion Time : 13mins

 

[loki3404]

Changed my mind. I'm not turking today.

 

[Not A Robot]

Boy, i'd sure whether do Mturk even if I have to work more hours to get the same pay as Walmart than have to work at Walmart. But I wouldn't give up my day job to do Mturk.

I would. I don't like working for other people. I'd do just about anything to avoid that.

 

[bxpretzel]

Man, it's really tricky for me to make a variable income budget. My brain doesn't seem to work like this.

rather than try to work with variable numbers i would try to set a low floor that you know you can meet, and budget based on that. my fiance's income varies but i set a baseline so anything above that is gravy

 

[blackpupjean]

Title: Survey about health and opinions | PANDA Requester: Kristin Maki [A4CVOVKXEON9Q] (Contact) (TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] Description: This study asks you to respond to survey questions and read a health-related message. Time: 2 hours HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Location is US;

Unpaid screener

I passed

 

[Major Payne]

I don't think I'm hitting my goal this week.

 

[Squatty]

I don't think I'm hitting my goal this week.

Just keep chugging, like the little train that could

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[loki3404]

Title: Problems with Intimate Relationships | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: William H. Gottdiener [A3IOJGP7JMZRV2] (Contact) TO 1: Not Available TO 2: Not Available Description: We are conducting a study to better understand problems in interpersonal relationships. Please click the link if you want to participate. Time: 20 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Location EqualTo US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.11​

 

[GenericPear]

Hey, how are you guys doing?

 

[blackpupjean]

I would. I don't like working for other people. I'd do just about anything to avoid that.

I'm just not disciplined enough to work from home. I would love to work from on for my day job though. Because I know I would have to accomplish tasks.

 

[Squatty]

Title: Answer questions about storybook characters | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Social Development & Learning Lab [A3S5EIYI3M3EP4] (Contact) TO 1: Not Available TO 2: Not Available Description: Read and look at some storybook pictures. Answer questions about the stories. You may also be asked to complete a color‐naming task. Time: 2 hours HITs Available: 1 Reward: $3.00 Qualifications: workopp has not been granted; HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95; Location is US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.11​

 

[SweetiePuff]

Title: Write a product description | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Todd [A25WPKXTYBWPCJ] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 3.00] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 2] [ToS: 0] TO 2: [Rate: $3.90/hr] [Pen: -- days] [Res: -- of 0] [Rec: 0% of 1] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Description: Write a creative product description Time: 60 minutes HITs Available: 53 Reward: $0.65 Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95; Location is US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.11​

 

[Major Payne]

Just keep chugging, like the little train that could

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wheels fell off...

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[JxmesBxnd]

What would you theorize the aim of throttling is? And, given that theory of its purpose... how successful do you think it is being?

That's my point. The only benefit I see them chasing is to increase the pool of workers on a batch. Most of the time the batch lasts a few minutes longer at most, and is offset by some workers still not working on the batch because of the throttling. So I do not see how it helps.

But I do know that it increases the number of server requests that I make while working on it by a factor of between 5 and 10. Which is obviously not good for them. So again, I'm left to wonder what I am missing.

 

[mboone73]

Would nice if my pandas would like, catch something.