Can't Find Good HITs? 12/20

You will go up and down with him. I've emailed him a few times with questions and he is very reasonable and gets back to people within a day. Just watch your accuracy on his HITS, that's what he want....ACCURATE work. If its a foreign address and you don't know how to put it in correctly, return the HIT and leave it for someone else. That is where most mess up...guess work lowers your score.

 

These rubins are hard, I don't even know really what to do.

 

Title: Look at some faces.
Requester: TurkExperiment2 [A35493KHLHLDMT] (TO)
Description: Label the facial expression of some face images.
Reward: $0.01
Qualifications:
Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2PBKA0RYNJ94MW618A2MRTUK7Y338F

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This was quick, not sure if they are within their rights as a requester though.

Title: *** Read our Welcome Message and Tell Us If It Makes it Fast ***
Requester: Chris Tarjeft [A1NA6C0U42WE3S] (TO)
Description: Simple 30 second job, use a unique emaiI addy if you have done this before. Only once in 48 hours allowed per unique location.
Reward: $1.00
Qualifications: Location is US
Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2KGW3K4F0OHR9G1F0QBOBL92HKL01W

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I understand what these Rubin HITs want, however, I don't know where to find the Admin information it's asking for. And I don't agree with the 40 minute timer at my current pace.

 

by clicking show images I think you are making yourself vulnerable. I could be wrong though. I would rather be safe than sorry. $1 isn't worth the risk to me.

 

Title: Take a survey to help save lives!
Requester: CrowdMed [A6LWTHQ0HZYOA] (TO)
Description: Participate in an experimental technique for solving difficult medical cases. No PhD required!
Reward: $0.25
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 95
Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=260LVCNHMVHXIUBXIEB2F4JAHOV02P

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cool little survey with a bonus. forgot to check the timer before i submitted but couldn't have been more than 5-10 min. apologize if its a repost

 

Only took about 45 seconds.

 

Sakai means surname (so assuming they want surname)

 

This is what they're asking for. http://www.sakaiproject.org/

It just has different names for every school.

 

If anyone hasn't done this, it's for $0.50 - took under 7 mins. -

Answer a Short Survey
Requester: Psych Study CIS NIF 502791888

 

its their online learning site i belive is what he is talking about

 

Thanks for your insight! I agree, I think a lot of the requestors misunderstand the purpose of the forums, and also get confused because there are forums that are built around scamming (the Pakistani gaming forum that was outed earlier this year iirc). And I agree with your point about the more immature OT harming the image of the community as a whole.

But, it was the author or the post/blog who said that ("Frederick"). And the other person he is talking to in the comments is an arrogant TN person agreeing/parroting that opinion.

I've been turking since 2010, and used to go on TN a lot before it was closed/changed, so I was just wondering if that post was referring to some specific impression or just annoying TN kibitzing.

 

The info they want for these seems a little difficult to find. Some of these were posted recently, very late at night, and I was just too tired to try to figure out the trick to finding the information quickly enough to make them worth the time.

 

Yeah I gave up on them. Returned

 

about the rubin hits - sakai is the generic name for the educational software platform that he's looking for at these schools. it's like blackboard and many of the 'generic' systems we were in for the course and professor hits. he wants the name of the system the school uses (ex., i just did uc santa cruz and it was called 'ecommons'), sometimes it's just 'sakai' but often it's something else, rebranded by a third party developer that expanded on the basic functionalities of the program. then he wants names and emails for people involved with running it. having done a bunch the other morning and looking at them now, i'm not finding good information for most of them. the best strategy i can think of is find out what the blackboard/sakai/etc. system at the given school is called, find out which administrative (not educational) unit runs it, then take a look at that unit's staff list and see if it has any corresponding titles listed. i think i've only run into one school out of a few dozen of these that i've done that actually had the same titles and organization as he's assuming. some have been quite a bit of work to dig up but are there if you can decipher the school's IT dept's organizational structure, but in many cases i could find one, maybe two contacts at best, and for quite a few of those i found none...

EDIT: remember, you're not looking for the academic IT department, but the administrative unit. this is much more the business side of academics than the... err... academic side of... umm... academics...

 

I'm gonna try 2 or 3 to see if I can get the hang of it. I doubt I will. I got a few of the details for one of them, but couldn't locate any names.

 

I did some of Rubin's $1 ones a few nights ago, none have approved yet, and I even got one for the college I go to and it was still difficult to find all the information, I'll let them pass for now because so far I've never even submitted an N/A to Rubin, and don't want to lose the opportunity to work for him.

 

yeah I screwed up on that first Rubin and then figured out what he wants...i'm an idiot.