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Two-Part University Study on Real-Effort (~ 20 minutes) - $4.00 +2.00 bonus
Low
Unrated
Approved
$8.85 / hour
00:40:40 / completion time
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Cons
It pays $4 for BOTH studies, not just the first one as indicated by the hit payment amount. You have to complete the 2nd study or you won't be paid anything for the first. You have to listen to audio reviews and select whether they are positive or negative. If you get more than 2 of these "wrong" then you are dropped and not paid for any work - this includes if you completed the first study already - no pay for you! Then they put an "annoying noise" over the top of the review which is a combination of extremely high pitched buzzing and grating scratches - IE "annoying noise" is an incredible understatment. The reviews are computer generated speech. You also have to give them your email address to receive the 2nd survey.Update: Completed 2nd half which was emailed to me & there is no hit in the mturk system for part 2. So you are completing the 2nd study entirely outside of the mturk system with no way to track payment. I received a randomized bonus task consisting of listening to 21 additional reviews for $2. The $2 bonus is nice, but the 2nd study took me 25 minutes to complete, bringing my total time to 40 minutes and pay rate working out to 8.85/hr - pretty low overall. I also got one of the answers incorrect although the review was simultaneously positive & negative, with the negative qualities being a joke. So yes, it is possible to answer incorrectly & if you do this 3 times you get no payment, even if you already spent 40 minutes of your time listening to grating audio.
Advice to Requester
Requiring email address is a violation of MTurk Terms of Service. Its also unethical to threaten non-payment for work already completed.
May 24, 2021 | 3 workers found this helpful.
jsxca Fast Reader
Simple Real-Effort Survey (University Experiment)(~ 35 minutes) - $3.00
Underpaid
Unrated
Pending
$8.51 / hour
00:21:09 / completion time
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This is one of the worst paid studies for the nature of the task I've encountered. It's a counting task (count how many times ! appears in the given image), where not only are you not able to ctrl + F for easy viewing (because it's an image, not text), but they actually purposely put in additional characters that make it HARDER to see.You are asked to do 20 blocks of this. If you're off by even one, you aren't able to continue on. I was blazing through this and it still took me 21 minutes to complete.
The "bonus" opportunity SUCKS. It's randomized, but in order for me to earn an extra $3, I would have had to complete 93 more blocks.
Garbage requester, adding to block list.
Jun 24, 2019 | 6 workers found this helpful.
Hedgmog Careful Reader
Two-Part University Study on Real-Effort (~ 20 minutes) - $4.00
Unrated
Unrated
Approved
$9.62 / hour
00:24:57 / completion time
Pros
Listen to book reviews and rate them positive or negative - participants will either have background noise added or not - simple to follow - MUST complete tomorrow's task to be paid for this task, which is emailed directly - great pay05.25.2021 - second part was done separately via email on a link. 8 further reviews to complete and a chance to do extra work for a bonus - this was picked randomly - I received no extra work so I do not get any extra pay.
This is $4.00 total for both parts!
Cons
May 24, 2021