Hello Everyone, I'm a professor located at a University in the Pacific Northwest. Recently, my colleagues and I decided to post our first survey on Mturk. We had a limited amount of money to pay workers so we decided to use a combined payment and lottery system approach. Rather than pay everyone $1 or slightly less, we thought it might be more desirable to pay each respondent a very minimal amount for their time, but then enter their Worker ID in a raffle with the change to win up to $300 USD. If your location is eligible then you can find the survey under the title: "Earn up to $300 USD by completing this Work Attitudes Survey" Description is: "Win up to $300 (U.S. Currency) by responding to a survey about your job and workplace." The keywords are: "survey, attitudes, raffle, questionnaire, lottery, psychology, experiment, business, money, easy" First, I hope you will consider participating in this important study concerning employee attitudes that we will eventually share with the scientific community. Depending on English language comprehension so far we've seen it take from 6 minutes up to 18 minutes. Second, for future surveys, what are your preferences? Do you prefer a survey with a payment of an equivalent minimum wage? (e.g., .10 per minute) or would you prefer a combination marginal payment and entry into a raffle? Finally, we would like to be as transparent as possible to ensure you that we are indeed paying out the raffle prize. The raffle ends in approximately 60 days from now and we are trying to come up with a way to post the winners to the Mturk Forum while keeping your full identity confidential. Any suggestions or preferences in that regard? Thank you for your time and participation. All the best - Matt
You have qualified this survey for only Turkers with a minimum of 100 previous HITs. From what I've read, it sounds to me that "real" Turkers (those with >100 HITS) don't really do surveys & those that do surveys don't look in the .10 area for HITs. You would probably have a better response paying > .50 & doing the rest as a raffle but I think most would prefer the $1.
I think most people would probably prefer the greater average payment. The biggest tip I can give you is one word "communication". Simply responding to questions and being transparent, like you are now, is probably the best way to ensure you have quality work done (as much as one can). You'll probably will get more traction on this if you post in a Greatest HITs thread during peak hours 8-5. I hope MTurk treats you well and you accomplish what you're after. If you have any questions that you think I can help with, my email is in the comments, currently my PMs do not work.
Hi Matt, unless you state explicity in the HIT title or description that it will take less than 1 minute, or it is a one-click survey, I am not going to do it for $.10.