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Caution! MTurk Workers Ahead —Fines Doubled
research by P. D. Harms University of Alabama Justin A. DeSimone Univ
wow, these guys don't like us at all
For one, they think because survey respondents come from a dedicated pool of mturkers, rather than representative of the entire mturk pool, we don't represent the population well - especially in organizational research. Worse, imo (and almost revealing) is the pointed and condescending way they evaluate us as a group.
For example here:
"........
many Turkers do sincerely consider what they do to be a job like any other.
Websites like mturkgrind.com, wearedynamo.org, and turkopticon have been
used to advocate for MTurk worker rights. In particular, it has been suggested
that the rates of pay for projects be benchmarked to the U.S. federal
minimum wage. Researchers paying less than this rate may be contacted by
self-appointed “labor reps” pointing them to these sites and threatening to
contact university institutional review boards."
Sadly, they draw their conclusions - in part - from this report:
"We would even go so far as to say that investigators may want to consider paying for bad data as simply a cost of doing research online. Based on personal experience, it is not
worth saving 30 cents to have someone call your house and threaten to drive
from Colorado to Nebraska so they can stab you because you did not pay
them."
I found it here.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Harms/publications
It was pretty discouraging (they even had a whole paragraph on studies that found poor data -respondants reporting different genders on different studies, etc. ).
research by P. D. Harms University of Alabama Justin A. DeSimone Univ
wow, these guys don't like us at all
For one, they think because survey respondents come from a dedicated pool of mturkers, rather than representative of the entire mturk pool, we don't represent the population well - especially in organizational research. Worse, imo (and almost revealing) is the pointed and condescending way they evaluate us as a group.
For example here:
"........
many Turkers do sincerely consider what they do to be a job like any other.
Websites like mturkgrind.com, wearedynamo.org, and turkopticon have been
used to advocate for MTurk worker rights. In particular, it has been suggested
that the rates of pay for projects be benchmarked to the U.S. federal
minimum wage. Researchers paying less than this rate may be contacted by
self-appointed “labor reps” pointing them to these sites and threatening to
contact university institutional review boards."
Sadly, they draw their conclusions - in part - from this report:
"We would even go so far as to say that investigators may want to consider paying for bad data as simply a cost of doing research online. Based on personal experience, it is not
worth saving 30 cents to have someone call your house and threaten to drive
from Colorado to Nebraska so they can stab you because you did not pay
them."
I found it here.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Harms/publications
It was pretty discouraging (they even had a whole paragraph on studies that found poor data -respondants reporting different genders on different studies, etc. ).
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