Finding Great HITs 04/08 Solid Skepticak Square Sunday

I made $50.08 last week. In really good weeks, I make $70. Sitting longer won't make me much more money, because the work isn't there.

If you're making that much, why are you still working here? Take an around-the-world trip!

 

Maybe later. I think I want to make more money for now!

Holy Guacamole!

 

I just don't feel like doing anything but work right now. Maybe in a year or two...

 

Already approved. Awesome HIT. Thanks.

 

Title: Decisions and Beliefs | PANDA Requester: Paul Conway [A3OBF3TLWIUEKN] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 3.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.53 Generosity ★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 5.00 Promptness Number of Reviews: 43 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: This study will involve a number of questions involving tough decisions in situations you or others may encounter. The survey will take about 20 minutes and you will receive $1.00 for participating. Time: 7200 HITs Available: 23 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 50;Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 50;HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95;HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95;Location EqualTo US;Location EqualTo US

*EDIT* About 11 mins

 

Sweet! I was just going to check that.

 

Made about $130 last week, which is about par for the course. If I didn't have masters, I'd probably be making about half that.
When I find a batch I can ham for any length of time, it usually pays less than $3 an hour, and while I'm doing that I miss out on the good surveys, like that "select startup company name" thing.
Which I missed. Because I was busy slaving away for $2.50 an hour. :hairpull:

 

Title: Brief Videos and Personality (~10-15 min) | PANDA Requester: MSP Lab [A2AN6JLAK63YGR] (TO) TO Ratings: TO Unavailable Submit a new TO review Description: As part of a research study at Wake Forest University (IRB00023007), we are conducting a survey about people’s behaviors and their personalities. This will involve recording and uploading brief (2 to 5 sec) videos and completing questionnaires. Time: 3600 HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.80 Qualifications: Location In CA,US;HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95

*EDIT* Sorry. Didn't read the description before I posted. No making videos for me.

 

Title: Rate news headlines!, approx. 10 minutes. | AcceptA Requester: Research Methods [A4JVAZ8IYG82L] Contact TV: [Hrly: $9.42] [Pay: 3.08] [Fast: 4.50] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 2.99] [Fast: 4.30] [Comm: 3.29] [Fair: 4.32] [Reviews: 304] [ToS: 2] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $1.00 Duration: 1 hour Available: 135 Description: In this study, you will be asked to give your opinion about news headlines. Requirements: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; Location EqualTo US

 

Title: Online Grocery Shopping Experience Survey | PANDA Requester: Brodie [A2D1OJK2JP88OO] (Req TV): N/A (TO): [Pay: 4.63] [Fair: 5.00] [Comm: 4.80] [Fast: 4.86] Description: Give us your opinion about online grocery shopping. Time: 30 minutes(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.50 Qualifications: Online Purchase - Groceries & Food EqualTo 1;

preview this first, seems a little scammy,
you have to call a phone number, forward a receipt from the last 6 months
then they send you a link to the survey

old good TO from some other survey

 

Good one. Some of that stuff was comedy gold.

 

Title: Write a revenge story. | AcceptA Requester: Todd Hoff & Linda Coleman [AJRRNQMIV6U0M] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: $3.00 Duration: 2 days Available: 1 Description: Do you have a revenge fantasy? Has someone or something done you wrong and you've thought about how you really wanted to respond instead of how you actually responded? Requirements: Masters Exists

I'm very tempted but I'll pass...

 

4 minutes.

Title: Answer a short survey about travelling | PANDA Requester: Marta [A2I4JIYJGF31TX] (TO) TO Ratings: TO Unavailable Submit a new TO review Description: This survey will ask you about your experiences with travelling and your opinion on some countries. The survey will only take 3-4 minutes. Time: 900 HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Location In AT,AU,BE,BG,BR,CA,CH,CZ,DE,DK,ES,FI,FR,GB,GR,HU,IE,IT,JP,KR,NL,NO,PL,PT,RU,SE,SI,SK,TR,US;Masters Exists

 

You should never grind a $2.50 an hour batch!

Maybe an alternative strategy is to continue doing your surveys (less hair pulling for you) and maybe run pandas on batches which come out throughout at all hours. Batches with longer timers like Project Zoltar (60 min. timer) and FBA - MIC (20 min. timer) would be perfect!

Therefore you can do your survey and then have a nice queue-full of this quick hitting type hits.

Even though that's not how I turk, that would would definitely be a doable strategy. Good luck!

 

Title: Play a game and improve a science visualization | PANDA Requester: Aditya Bharadwaj [A2HSDBTSOSCN8V] (Req TV): N/A (TO): [Pay: N/A] [Fair: N/A] [Comm: N/A] [Fast: N/A] Description: You will play a science game called Flud and try to maximize your score by improving a visualization of a biological network. Time: 30 minutes(s) HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.75 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 97; Location In US;

no idea if it''s a good hit, you may or may not get to do it
chalk up another requester in the workers are expendable category

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Graduate Research Assistant,
Department of Computer Science,
Virginia Tech

 

I've found this approach gets more and more unworkable as time goes by. Seems like if more than 2 people panda something it gets throttled and if you have 2 in your queue already you aren't getting any more until you do them. I exaggerate a little, but the more demand, the less you get and the more you already have in queue, the less you get.

I can do a 10 minute survey and have 2 zoltars waiting on me when I am done. But if I sit and do zoltars and nothing else I can get a dozen in the same time period. The former approach means you have a shiny dime waiting for you after the survey. Yay. The latter approach gets you 60 cents in 10 minutes, which is awful.

Amazon is determined to make something simple as difficult as possible.

Been doing this for almost exactly 3 years now. I made the most money, by far, my first year. I didn't even run scraper back then. Year 2 sucked in comparison. Year 3 I've had masters, which has enabled me to make almost as much as year 2. Without masters I'd probably have just given up this past year. If the pattern holds I don't know I'll make it to the end of year 4.

 

Went to a charity soup cook-off event today. In particular, had a delicious cauliflower bisque with coconut milk served with a roasted Brussels sprout.

 

Flora probably already posted it a while back but I just noticed it so I'll put it up again.

Title: Eligibility Survey(~ 1 minutes) | AcceptA Requester: Johnson School BSL [A708YWZMMMGCY] Contact TV: [Hrly: $10.75] [Pay: 3.50] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 2.73] [Fast: 4.82] [Comm: 3.33] [Fair: 4.31] [Reviews: 41] [ToS: 0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $0.05 Duration: 10 minutes Available: 84 Description: Take this 30-second survey to test eligibility for future academic research. Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [1039273708-82325] DoesNotExist; SurveyGroup [1008] DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 92; Location In US

 

Title: Survey about personality and socio-moral problem solving | AcceptA Requester: melissa a wheeler [A2MDSGFS0073LW] Contact TV: [Hrly: $8.54] [Pay: 2.82] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 2.98] [Fast: 4.53] [Comm: 2.91] [Fair: 4.49] [Reviews: 228] [ToS: 7] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $6.00 Duration: 2 hours Available: 10 Description: Complete some personality measures and decision-making tasks Requirements: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 98; Location EqualTo US

 

Title: Serve on a Civil Jury (about 25 minutes)(~ 24 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Bernard Chao [A2X89TZYBLVSBM] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 4.43 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.74 Generosity ★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.95 Promptness Number of Reviews: 39 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: You will be serving as a juror in a civil lawsuit Time: 2400 HITs Available: 94 Reward: $2.90 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100;Exc: [2471866-82293] DoesNotExist ;HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 80;Location In US

Less than 20 minutes.