02/24 - Secretive Saturday!

[electrolyte]

I watched that the other night. Coincidence? I'm actually kind of spooked at the moment.

I need a thicker tinfoil hat.

 

[C to the J]

I'm accidentally watching a documentary about a surgeon who removes bits of metal from people who think it was put there by aliens as tracking devices.

 

[Michele]

night :star:

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[Birdie]

I need more motivation. ahhhh

 

[stuffalleysays]

I saw that!

 

[Achilles2357]

Some of it has to do with the way MTurk charges fees. The price is different if there's a batch of 10 or more vs. 1 HIT. https://www.mturk.com/pricing

Well, that makes sense from the requester side, but is there some rationale for this pricing?

(I was looking at that link and thinking about it, and found that mturk has its own qualtrics survey going to suggest "premium quals":
https://aws.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_068XuDO7QS3yTbf.) (You probably shouldn't post junk there or they'll track you down and punish you!)

 

[Roscoe E Goldchain]

@C to the J I was out earlier , how was that x8 batch

 

[alk69]

I'm trying to understand how mturk works in the hope of getting better. So, apparently, if N people can do a given hit (like a survey), then there are N "assignments". By contrast, if the task says that a certain number are available, then this means there are N "hits". Most "batches" are like this since you are doing real "work" and can do as much as you wish, sometimes. My question is why some requesters set up "one and done" tasks so that there are multiple "hits"? Do they just not know what they are doing (even if they stop you from repeating)? Or is there some reason here?

You're looking for ''reason'' here? Well, there's the big problem. I ain't figured it out in 6 years now, and I always thought I was fairly bright....some requesters are and some aren't....it is believed by some that requesters are actually people too... I'm hard to convince.

 

[Achilles2357]

Well, that makes sense from the requester side, but is there some rationale for this pricing?

(I was looking at that link and thinking about it, and found that mturk has its own qualtrics survey going to suggest "premium quals":
https://aws.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_068XuDO7QS3yTbf.) (You probably shouldn't post junk there or they'll track you down and punish you!)

OK, some I'm looking at the mturk pricing and found the pricing for premium quals. Here: https://requester.mturk.com/pricing. (Actually that is all of the pricing.) It looks like there are no exclusion quals - I mean requesters can't pay to exclude you if you answer a premium qual question a certain way. The upshot is that it always pays to do ALL the Amazon quals. Even do the language quals and fail them: +5 approvals. But hey, you might pass if you know a little...

 

[electrolyte]

Title: Demographics survey | Accept Requester: Panos Ipeirotis [A3DL93QTPE513P] Contact TV: [Hrly: $31.74] [Pay: 4.24] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.42] [Fast: 4.74] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 56] [ToS: 1] TO2: [Hrly: $16.00] [Pen: 0.36 days] [Res: ---] [Rec: 100% of 3] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $0.10 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: Demographics survey Requirements: None [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.12​

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[KellieS23]

Hi

So I finally got my computer set back up, just thought I'd pop on to say Hi, and let whoever know that I'm not dead.
Spent the last 4 weeks remodeling the basement (where my office is).

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[coffeeowl]

Hi

So I finally got my computer set back up, just thought I'd pop on to say Hi, and let whoever know that I'm not dead.
Spent the last 4 weeks remodeling the basement (where my office is).

Spoiler: It looks purdy now

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Looks nice. Congrats and welcome back!

 

[TissueHime]

1 hour left for dibs!
if you do call it, please tag me or else I might miss it!

 

[Bliss]

Title: Opinions on New Technology Survey(~ 15 minutes) | Accept Requester: Mark Brandt [AS2ZF0X3ELT3P] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: [Pay: 3.83] [Fast: 4.92] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 85] [ToS: 0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $2.25 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: You will answer several questions about your opinions on new technologies. Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [75561-74972] DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; Location In US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.12​

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[Birdie]

Projected Earnings Today 40 $79.12 + a butt ton of units

 

[aveline]

Title: Heroes Research | PANDA Requester: Scott [AFC1F2OQ7WD0F] (Contact) TV: [Hrly: $5.78] [Pay: 2.00] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.20] [Fast: 4.17] [Comm: 4.33] [Fair: 4.00] [Reviews: 16] [ToS: 0] TO2: No Reviews Duration: 30 minutes Reward: $0.50 Available: 1 Description: Reflect on heroes in your life Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThan 100; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95; Location EqualTo US

 

[SunlitSunflower]

Have you ever met @SunlitSunflower by any chance?

OH GOOD FUCKING LORD ANOTHER SUNFLOWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

[Bliss]

Title: Contract attitudes' scale(~ 8 minutes) | Accept Requester: Ori Katz [A2ZESDC6X6M5J4] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: [Pay: 4.40] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 5] [ToS: 0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $0.80 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: The purpose of this survey is to investigate attitudes regarding various issues. It contains 19 statements about contract issues that you will be asked to express your opinion about. Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [-1541921802-75895] DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; Location In US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.12​

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[DareAngel3]

Title: NYU Social Science Experiment (bonus payment, 11 minutes)(~ 11 minutes) | Accept Requester: curtis kephart [A1AKOCM3HTLFMY] Contact TV: [Hrly: $10.59] [Pay: 3.00] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: $0.50 Duration: 30 minutes Available: 1 Description: Take part in a decision-making study and earn a bonus of up to $7.00 Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; TP Panel: 664426543 N GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 97; Location In US; Exc: [75454-75927] DoesNotExist [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.12​

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7 minutes, potential bonus

 

[Achilles2357]

Two good books (author, Jon Duckett):
HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
These are both very accessible to a wide audience. Both are highly "designed" and give as much attention to layout as to being logical.
If you are trying to grasp mturk, CSS doesn't matter so much, but I think it is important to understand what it is, and I think if you try to write your own scripts, tweaking the fonts and such might get you an extra 20% or so. The "form" and "input" stuff in the first book is very illuminating. In the second book, I'd definitely aim to grasp everything through the jquery chapter.

I'm only just now trying to seriously write scripts, so you shouldn't necessarily believe me.