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Re:10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 d... by dcurtis on Thursday September 25, 2008 @01:02AM (#314535)
I wonder if you paid two people 1c and then merged the results, how accurate you'd be.
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Re:10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 d... by danw on Thursday September 25, 2008 @04:56AM (#314686)
You still wouldn't get the speed benefits that $0.02 offers. Some tasks (like this drawing one) can't be automatically verified.

Anyone compared 2c and 1c with doublechecking for simpler tasks?

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