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Re:Mechanical Turk changes how we understand labor by shalmanese on Thursday April 23, 2009 @04:31PM (#576432)
There’s a common perception that Mechanical Turk thrives on exploiting 3rd world labor. This doesn’t appear to be the case.

From: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanica... and http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2008/07/mechanical-turk-demogra... 82% of turkers are from the US, Canada or the UK and over 75% have a Bachelor’s degree or higher.

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Re:Mechanical Turk changes how we understand labor by rms on Thursday April 23, 2009 @05:33PM (#576520)
Yes, the average wage is $4/hour and most people spend it as Amazon credit on plasma TVs and home theaters.
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Re:Mechanical Turk changes how we understand labor by jakewolf on Thursday April 23, 2009 @06:45PM (#576596)
My mom has a phd and does HITs for fun.
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Re:Mechanical Turk changes how we understand labor by dxjones on Friday April 24, 2009 @11:39AM (#577638)
Thanks for this link. It makes an explicit link to similar demographics for "ESP" games.
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