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Re:Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research by ccnafr on Friday May 18, 2018 @04:58AM (#17099794)
Do people who participate in MK get any money for their time?
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Re:Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research by iagovar on Friday May 18, 2018 @07:24AM (#17100508)
Not outside the US, so I won't be so confident for non english data.
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Re:Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research by ccnafr on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:37AM (#17100910)
Why not? Are they afraid of users from low-income countries flooding the site?
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Re:Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research by mberger on Friday May 18, 2018 @02:00PM (#17103537)
Yes, and that you get a lot of tasks that you can't prosecute their origin. For example (off the top of my head) solving captchas, cracking passwords, doxing, hacking offers etc. I think there was also the spectre of organized crime enslaving people to do the tasks and taking the profits.
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Re:Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research by larrykwg on Saturday May 19, 2018 @03:14AM (#17106980)
whaat non US workers don't get paid??
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