Please join us this Friday, May 21st at 1pm at our APS symposium in New York City. We will be presenting talks on TurkPrime and how to make the most of Mechanical Turk.
Topics: amazon mechanical turk, APS, mturk
Problem:
How can a Requester who rejected an assignment in error undo his mistake? A rejected assignment affects the Worker negatively and will often impact the Requester with negative feedback which can damage the Requester's online reputation which lowers Worker participation in future HITs. What can a Requester do to reverse the rejection?
Topics: amazon mechanical turk, increase participation, mturk, mturk api, requester, reverse rejection, turkprime
Problem:
Suppose you're running a Mechanical Turk survey and need to exclude workers who took a previous survey. How can you quickly set this up.
Some of the currently used solutions require following multiple steps to set things up and are not turnkey solutions and others require Workers to enter their Worker ID, which may self-filter workers and limit the number of workers taking your survey.
Topics: amazon mechanical turk, exclude, exclude workers, mechanical turk, mturk, turkprime, workerid
Longitudinal and Follow up Surveys on Mechanical Turk
Problem:
Suppose you need to run a survey on Mechanical Turk and follow up with the same workers a week, month or year later. A few issues come up:
Topics: amazon mechanical turk, email, follow up, include workers, Longitudinal, mturk, notify
System Qualification Enhancements - US State Qualifications
Amazon just announced that their Worker Qualification now supports US State locations. It is currently available through their API and is also available through their Web Interface.
Topics: amazon mechanical turk, mturk, mturk api, qualification