Chris Callison-Burch Ratings
Chris Callison-Burch Wage History
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sarin Unreliably Fast
Response Collection - $0.25
Underpaid
Unrated
Approved
$4.29 / hour
00:03:30 / completion time
Pros
I did it for the reviewCons
This requester is a real stand up guy. Although he wants fairer wages on the MTurk platform, he won't hesitate to put out real underpaid batches such as this.You have to read 10 conversations, and give 2 possible responses each to them. You get an extra shiny penny for each extra response, but it's just a ploy to get you to do more work for less pay. The conversations barely make sense, and they lack any sort of context, so you have no idea what to write about half the time. This batch also uses the dreaded Crowd HTML Elements template, which screws my old PC over. For a batch with a US only qual, it seems that the requester doesn't mind paying American workers below minimum wage for his own AI research.
In a Medium article, this requester talks about his own Google Chrome extension, and how he wants to make MTurk better by having requesters pay fairer wages. It's hypocritical to talk about that in your article, then post borderline slave wage, menial, mentally intensive work such as this. The pay is more than insulting when you consider the context behind the requester and his intentions.
Jun 19, 2019 | 32 workers found this helpful.
hvnnvr Average Pace
Short (5 minute) survey asking about your experience on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Underpaid
Unrated
Approved
$ / hour
00:04:55 / completion time
Pros
At least the Google forms survey offers a little realization during its completion: 'Why are you completing a HIT for no pay? *'Answer: The opportunity to review this hypocritical HIT from 'Researcher' Kristy Milland (a 'Researcher' known to the mTurk community for skewing survey results by stacking respondents on serious academic studies) using the Chris Callison-Burch account.
Sometimes you need a healthy dose of hypocrisy with your caffeine while working on mTurk.
The survey is completed using Google forms.
If one response to this survey which pays you $0.00 for providing data is not enough, you can always 'submit another response.'
Cons
This is literally a survey that offers to pay you $0.00 in exchange for you providing data to a Researcher who 'hope[s] is to use this data to help you make more money on mTurk' while threatening to reject you if don't conscientiously submit answers that will fit into her gig worker and crowdsource platform bashing 'research.'The Google forms survey consists of three writing prompts (that require a minimum character count of at least 50 characters) and a single multiple choice question.
The survey requests that you complete it honestly and accurately as possible and that 'answers which are obviously not submitted conscientiously will be rejected.' Reminder this is for a survey that pays you $0.00 in order to 'help you make more money on mTurk.'
A great opportunity to earn a rejection which could negatively affect your worker account over time... Blah Blah Blah.
'If you put a fair effort into this survey, your HIT will be approved within 3 days.'
Feb 22, 2020 | 4 workers found this helpful.
sarin Unreliably Fast
Short (5 minute) survey asking about your experience on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Underpaid
Unrated
Approved
$ / hour
00:00:49 / completion time
Pros
Cons
Google Forms 'study' run by Kristy Milland on Chris' account, which is ironic considering she's tweeted about quitting MTurk and not being involved in it anymore3 writing prompts of at least 50 characters each
The writing prompts YELL AT YOU IN CAPS TO NOT COPY AND PASTE THINGS TO MEET THE CHARACTER MINIMUM if you don't meet it
One prompt smugly asks you why you're doing work for 0 cents on a HIT that pays 0 cents
Rejection threats in the frame
No specific place to put your worker ID in the survey when the HIT uses it as a survey code
'Submit another response' after you complete the study, which means whatever data is submitted through this study is garbage
Disgusting
Feb 22, 2020 | 12 workers found this helpful.