02/01 - Feta Friday!

Status
Not open for further replies.

SarahAshlee90

Well-Known Member
Crowd Pleaser
Joined
Mar 4, 2016
Messages
2,781
Reaction score
5,294
Points
963
Age
33
Gender
Female
I honestly think it has more to do with where you live and how many people near you have it, though I have absolutely nothing but a hunch to support that with.
I think it goes to people who've installed mturk suite in an even numbered month of the year, but also people who've installed panda crazy on an odd numbered day of the month. I dont have any evidence to back this up but thats how everyone I know who got masters did it. :teach:
 

aveline

Well-Known Member
Administrator
Champion
Joined
Jan 10, 2016
Messages
36,509
Reaction score
104,413
Points
2,088
Location
Las Vegas
Gender
Female
We know so little about how Masters is assigned, but I think the one thing that we have learned for sure is that the number of HITs you've done has little weight. I've seen people get it with as few completed HITs as 1,200 and as many as 1,000,000+.

It also seems like people who pretty much only do surveys get it far less often than people that work on a larger variety of HITs.
 

Theta Carinae

minor superhero nerd
Contributor
Joined
Jun 28, 2017
Messages
1,247
Reaction score
2,725
Points
538
Location
IC 2602
Gender
Female
I think it goes to people who've installed mturk suite in an even numbered month of the year, but also people who've installed panda crazy on an odd numbered day of the month. I dont have any evidence to back this up but thats how everyone I know who got masters did it. :teach:
LOL! You know, that's just as likely an explanation as anything people have come up with, so why not?

(Although, um, what about people who got masters before there were such things as MTS or PC? *searches for walker emote*)
 

C to the J

Outlaw Turker
Contributor
Master Pleaser
Crowd Pleaser
HIT Poster
Joined
Jan 12, 2016
Messages
52,791
Reaction score
163,375
Points
3,238
Age
37
Gender
Male
This always ends with someone posting about a dude who got it in 2000 HITs after a few months and everyone getting mad.
Jaded @Jaded said that was her on one of her fake accounts but idk.
She's so untrustworthy that I can't even trust her when she's admitting to a lie.
 

masterx1234

Well-Known Member
Contributor
Joined
Oct 10, 2017
Messages
1,470
Reaction score
2,968
Points
588
Age
34
Gender
Male
We know so little about how Masters is assigned, but I think the one thing that we have learned for sure is that the number of HITs you've done has little weight. I've seen people get it with as few completed HITs as 1,200 and as many as 1,000,000+.

It also seems like people who pretty much only do surveys get it far less often than people that work on a larger variety of HITs.
I do any good batches I see, I just wont waste my time on like 90% of the batches that are up, its just not worth it. I do mainly surveys because its where a non master makes all of his money. So should I just do crappy batches to mix it up?
 

Minx2121

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 9, 2018
Messages
2,778
Reaction score
5,816
Points
763
Age
34
Gender
Female
Title: A Study about Attitudes and Opinions(~ 4 minutes) | PANDA
Requester: Stanford GSB Behavioral Lab [A3OSXTUM1QEXNY] (Req TV): $14.19/hr/hr
(TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A]
Description:
Earn $0.40 in 4 minutes!
Time: 15 minutes(s)
HITs Available: 45
Reward: $0.40
Qualifications: TP Panel: -31667692 N GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [3896391-126915] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 1000; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; Location In US;
 

Theta Carinae

minor superhero nerd
Contributor
Joined
Jun 28, 2017
Messages
1,247
Reaction score
2,725
Points
538
Location
IC 2602
Gender
Female
I do any good batches I see, I just wont waste my time on like 90% of the batches that are up, its just not worth it. I do mainly surveys because its where a non master makes all of his money. So should I just do crappy batches to mix it up?
Probably, but because it will make you more money than not working will do, not because it has any particular chance of getting you masters.
 

cb456

Let's do some hits!
Mentor
Contributor
Joined
Jul 25, 2017
Messages
5,983
Reaction score
15,962
Points
1,013
Gender
Male
You've received a bonus from Jay Myung for work related to 362E9TQF2HPXV6DJPZF3J6PH8Q3GIL.
The value of your bonus is: $3.00 USD

The Requester included this note:
Your final total earning in the games is in the top 20%.

Thanks for being a Worker on Mechanical Turk!
 

masterx1234

Well-Known Member
Contributor
Joined
Oct 10, 2017
Messages
1,470
Reaction score
2,968
Points
588
Age
34
Gender
Male
Whoa did the site just error out for anyone else there for a sec? said database error or something.
 
  • Like
Reactions: cb456 and Kennedy

aveline

Well-Known Member
Administrator
Champion
Joined
Jan 10, 2016
Messages
36,509
Reaction score
104,413
Points
2,088
Location
Las Vegas
Gender
Female
I do any good batches I see, I just wont waste my time on like 90% of the batches that are up, its just not worth it. I do mainly surveys because its where a non master makes all of his money. So should I just do crappy batches to mix it up?
I wouldn't recommend ever doing crappy batches, but there's plenty of good non-masters batch work out there if you keep an eye out. That stuff just tends to go faster than everything else so you have to be quick to get on it. I would suggest specifically looking more for categorization/content moderation type batches, but that's just my own personal theory.
 

C to the J

Outlaw Turker
Contributor
Master Pleaser
Crowd Pleaser
HIT Poster
Joined
Jan 12, 2016
Messages
52,791
Reaction score
163,375
Points
3,238
Age
37
Gender
Male
You've received a bonus from Jay Myung for work related to 362E9TQF2HPXV6DJPZF3J6PH8Q3GIL.
The value of your bonus is: $3.00 USD

The Requester included this note:
Your final total earning in the games is in the top 20%.

Thanks for being a Worker on Mechanical Turk!
Now here is a guy who knows how to inflate some fucking balloons man.
Rock on.
 

Michele

Working on degree in Moon
Contributor
HIT Poster
Joined
Feb 28, 2017
Messages
17,492
Reaction score
32,877
Points
1,388
Location
California
Gender
Female
6 minutes 18 - $9.50/hr no code
Title: Answer a survey about the American economy. 10-15 minutes. | Accept
Requester: Andrew Kerner [A3S9S1UQ7041CW] Contact
TV: [Hrly=$24.31] [Pay=Generous] [Approval=~24 hrs] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0]
TO: No Reviews
TO2: No Reviews
Reward: 1.00
Duration: 1:00:00
Available: 1
Description: Academic researchers want to know about your beliefs about the state of the American economy.
Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 98; Location EqualTo US
 

Theta Carinae

minor superhero nerd
Contributor
Joined
Jun 28, 2017
Messages
1,247
Reaction score
2,725
Points
538
Location
IC 2602
Gender
Female
Thats true.
If I don't share the circumstances under which I got masters, it's because I really can't believe they'd be using the same criteria now as they were in 2013. (Though, I mean, they could. That's the thing: we don't know, and making yourself crazy trying to figure it out spends energy you could be spending on doing more different kinds of work, or learning to script, or something.)

aveline @aveline's categorization/content moderation has been a theory for a long time, there is that (though I feel the people who got masters with <5000 hits pretty much disprove it)
 
  • Like
Reactions: savvy and aveline
Status
Not open for further replies.