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17 lines
6.8 KiB
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"AssignmentId": "3VW6495TLKB6MP2R9SW1OPTK11GYYA",
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"WorkerId": "A2SR85I8JMO1ZZ",
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"HITId": "3UOMW19E6DHSVEU8CW4DSH7JVWE5CX",
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"AssignmentStatus": "Submitted",
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"AutoApprovalTime": "2021-08-26 15:50:48+02:00",
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"AcceptTime": "2021-08-26 11:34:36+02:00",
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"SubmitTime": "2021-08-26 11:50:48+02:00",
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"Answer": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ASCII\"?><QuestionFormAnswers xmlns=\"http://mechanicalturk.amazonaws.com/AWSMechanicalTurkDataSchemas/2005-10-01/QuestionFormAnswers.xsd\"><Answer><QuestionIdentifier>q0</QuestionIdentifier><FreeText>I definitely agree that MTurk is competitive; you have a lot of workers trying to compete for (especially) high paying jobs while the lower-paying jobs or under-paying jobs either get left for no one to do or for people who are just starting this work to build their numbers. There feels like there is a lot of animosity from both requesters and from workers, as requesters obviously need and would like work done within a budget, but when workers see high-paying jobs that aren't locked behind qualifications (be it HIT requirements, pre-testing, etc), they get snapped up very quickly and there is resentment among people who have been around longer.</FreeText></Answer><Answer><QuestionIdentifier>q1</QuestionIdentifier><FreeText>It's definitely easy to get distracted since you're usually at home working and that can mean family is talking to you, TV is on, you're trying to juggle other HITs in your queue. It means that you aren't completely focused on the work at hand, and when it comes to requestors embedding attention checks or the like in their work, you can miss them and take a hit to your score, which could damage your reputation and your account overall. It's not only embarrassing, but potentially able to lock you out of good HITs if you do it enough times, so it pays (literally) to make sure you do good work in a quiet environment.</FreeText></Answer><Answer><QuestionIdentifier>q2</QuestionIdentifier><FreeText>I would explain it as having a page open to manually refresh a HIT's page I am interested in. Usually these HITs are high paying, and when another person is done with them, they will be reposted again immediately, but you don't see them until they come up on the front page and click on it, and another person has already \"caught\" it with their own script that is refreshing the page for them. It can give you an advantage to actually get these HITs and potentially do good work, or even get better qualifications.</FreeText></Answer><Answer><QuestionIdentifier>q3</QuestionIdentifier><FreeText>One problem with MTurk is that HITs are so varied, so you may have a great paying HIT that has a 30 minute timer and another with a 40 timer. If you have both of them queued up and they both say they take roughly 30 minutes to do, you have to pick and choose which ones you want to do, and it can end up costing you good money down the line unfortunately, especially as HITs can be hard to catch again and many requesters won't let you attempt HITs again after you have even caught them. It is also irritating as many better HITs are locked behind qualifications that are hard to get or haven't been given out in years.</FreeText></Answer><Answer><QuestionIdentifier>q4</QuestionIdentifier><FreeText>\"Quals\" or \"Qualifications\" are given out by requesters or can be requested by workers themselves in order to essentially prescreen HITs before you take them and potentially risk rejections. If a requester needs someone who has worked over 5,000 or even 10,000 HITs, as they trust they will do good work, then they can put that qualification on their HIT and it will automatically screen out anyone who hasn't done that. It is a handy way to get the information and findings you need without manually doing everything yourself.</FreeText></Answer></QuestionFormAnswers>",
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"answers": {
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"q0": "I definitely agree that MTurk is competitive; you have a lot of workers trying to compete for (especially) high paying jobs while the lower-paying jobs or under-paying jobs either get left for no one to do or for people who are just starting this work to build their numbers. There feels like there is a lot of animosity from both requesters and from workers, as requesters obviously need and would like work done within a budget, but when workers see high-paying jobs that aren't locked behind qualifications (be it HIT requirements, pre-testing, etc), they get snapped up very quickly and there is resentment among people who have been around longer.",
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"q1": "It's definitely easy to get distracted since you're usually at home working and that can mean family is talking to you, TV is on, you're trying to juggle other HITs in your queue. It means that you aren't completely focused on the work at hand, and when it comes to requestors embedding attention checks or the like in their work, you can miss them and take a hit to your score, which could damage your reputation and your account overall. It's not \r only embarrassing, but potentially able to lock you out of good HITs if you do it enough times, so it pays (literally) to make sure you do good work in a quiet environment.",
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"q2": "I would explain it as having a page open to manually refresh a HIT's page I am interested in. Usually these HITs are high paying, and when another person is done with them, they will be reposted again immediately, but you don't see them until they come up on the front page and click on it, and another person has already \"caught\" it with their own script that is refreshing the page for them. It can give you an advantage to actually get these HITs and potentially do good work, or even get better qualifications.",
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"q3": "One problem with MTurk is that HITs are so varied, so you may have a great paying HIT that has a 30 minute timer and another with a 40 timer. If you have both of them queued up and they both say they take roughly 30 minutes to do, you have to pick and choose which ones you want to do, and it can end up costing you good money down the line unfortunately, especially as HITs can be hard to catch again and many requesters won't let you attempt HITs again after you have even caught them. It is also irritating as many better HITs are locked behind qualifications that are hard to get or haven't been given out in years.",
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"q4": "\"Quals\" or \"Qualifications\" are given out by requesters or can be requested by workers themselves in order to essentially prescreen HITs before you take them and potentially risk rejections. If a requester needs someone who has worked over 5,000 or even 10,000 HITs, as they trust they will do good work, then they can put that qualification on their HIT and it will automatically screen out anyone who hasn't done that. It is a handy way to get the information and findings you need without manually doing everything yourself."
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}
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