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Hi everyone!

I'm the programme manager for Astro Pi at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge UK. Astro Pi is an annual science and coding competition where student-written code is run on the International Space Station to perform scientific experiments. It began as one of the educational projects for British ESA astronaut Tim Peake in 2015, open to the UK only, and was extended to all ESA member states for the flight of French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet last year. This year astronauts Paolo Nespoli and Alexander Gerst are the ambassadors.

I'm using MTurk to verify that the entries for one of our challenges, Mission Zero, have obeyed the rules.

I recently became a requester for the first time and uploaded 30 of these entries, one entry per HIT with 3 assignments each, as a test.

Without any further explanation I'd like to see how people find the instructions I've provided, is everything clear? When the challenge is over on the 26th, I'll be uploading probably around 1000 more of these.

s3.amazonaws.com/mturk_bulk/hits/291180703/rzWxRlzdUgVpYyZSm_eH0Q.html

Many thanks!

Dave
 
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Hi everyone!

I'm the programme manager for Astro Pi at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge UK. Astro Pi is an annual science and coding competition where student-written code is run on the International Space Station to perform scientific experiments. It began as one of the educational projects for British ESA astronaut Tim Peake in 2015, open to the UK only, and was extended to all ESA member states for the flight of French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet last year. This year astronauts Paolo Nespoli and Alexander Gerst are the ambassadors.

I'm using MTurk to verify that the entries for one of our challenges, Mission Zero, have obeyed the rules.

I recently became a requester for the first time and uploaded 30 of these entries, one entry per HIT with 3 assignments each, as a test.

Without any further explanation I'd like to see how people find the instructions I've provided, is everything clear? When the challenge is over on the 26th, I'll be uploading probably around 1000 more of these.

s3.amazonaws.com/mturk_bulk/hits/291180703/rzWxRlzdUgVpYyZSm_eH0Q.html

Many thanks!

Dave
greeting was a sideways mushroom followed by the words "good luck". so if I was doing those hits, I don't know if I should put yes or no for greeting. also I couldn't see the example of an error. these look easily doable if those 2 things are more clear.
 

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Without any further explanation I'd like to see how people find the instructions I've provided, is everything clear? When the challenge is over on the 26th, I'll be uploading probably around 1000 more of these.
Instructions seem clear to me.

Thanks for reaching out!
 

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greeting was a sideways mushroom followed by the words "good luck". so if I was doing those hits, I don't know if I should put yes or no for greeting. also I couldn't see the example of an error. these look easily doable if those 2 things are more clear.
Ah I see. Thanks, yeah it's kind of hard to put into words concisely because they can use any phrase as text, which doesn't need to meet the dictionary definition of a greeting, or any 8x8 picture. There is a link to an example with an error under the "Entries must not" section of the collapsible instructions. Perhaps I should also have a link to it near the drop down for errors.

I was also thinking of switching to radio buttons to make it less clicks for people.
 
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Ah I see. Thanks, yeah it's kind of hard to put into words concisely because they can use any phrase as text, which doesn't need to meet the dictionary definition of a greeting, or any 8x8 picture. There is a link to an example with an error under the "Entries must not" section of the collapsible instructions. Perhaps I should also have a link to it near the drop down for errors.

I was also thinking of switching to radio buttons to make it less clicks for people.
I would have known for sure the right answer is yes if I had seen that
 

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Hi everyone, just to let you all know I've just published about 5000 of these HITs at 10c each (instructions updated slightly). Please feel free to grab a piece of the action. Many thanks!
 
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Bah, this is only for masters.
 
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Hi everyone, just to let you all know I've just published about 5000 of these HITs at 10c each (instructions updated slightly). Please feel free to grab a piece of the action. Many thanks!
Hi! Is there a reason you're only allowing Masters workers? There are plenty of great workers on MTurk who haven't won the Masters lottery so they're not able to access HITs that have the Masters qualification on them.

If you're trying to ensure high quality, you can set criteria that requires workers to have a high approval rating (maybe use "greater than 97% approval" or something similar).
 
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