Re:Shortcomings of Amazon Mechanical Turk May Threaten Natur...
by catillac on Saturday September 18, 2021 @11:43AM
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I have definitely upped the pay and not achieved better results. I don’t think it’s quite as simple a solution as you’re making it out to be. Realistically no matter how much you pay people who don’t have the medium to advanced skills to do the job for whatever reason, they won’t have those skills, at least in the short term.
Re:Shortcomings of Amazon Mechanical Turk May Threaten Natur...
by georgeutsin on Saturday September 18, 2021 @12:28PM
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Those skills are typically built through training anyway, but MTurk doesn't seem to have the necessary training pipeline.
Re:Shortcomings of Amazon Mechanical Turk May Threaten Natur...
by notyourwork on Saturday September 18, 2021 @01:33PM
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Yep! The old saying "you get what you pay for" applies to Mechanical Turk like everything else. We tried outsourcing a project to Mechanical Turk and ended up spending more time on reliability and quality controls than it saved is in doing the manual work ourselves.
Re:Shortcomings of Amazon Mechanical Turk May Threaten Natur...
by tedunangst on Saturday September 18, 2021 @12:32PM
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How many of your peers and colleagues are regularly checking mturk for suitable well paying tasks?
Are they 1:1 your peers, colleagues?
Or are they underpaid, most likely emerging economy countries, and very overworked labor that you're paying for?
You can browse to the mechanical turk subreddits and you'll hear the other side of the table that they spend 15-20-hours on a task to get what, a few dollars?
Pay more, get better results. The system itself is designed to exploit.