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A research survey about fake news sharing on social media(~ 25 minutes) - $2.50
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Unrated
Rejected (All)
$19.40 / hour
00:07:44 / completion time
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In this study, you are required to watch 20-30 videos of Biden and Trump, about 8 total, 4 of each, half of which have been edited to feature voice overs of someone doing Biden and Trump impressions that otherwise match what they would otherwise say.Hidden within the 10 paragraph consent form is a line that reads:
"Please pay attention when you answer the survey. The survey contains attention checks and options of some questions are arranged in a different order. Failing to recognize the attention checks or the reversely arranged questions may cause rejection of your response."
After watching each video you must rate it on the following characteristics:
*How likely are you to SHARE this video on social media?
* How likely are you to REPORT this video on social media?
* How BELIEVABLE do you find this video?
* How CREDIBLE do you find this video?
* How TRUTHFUL do you find this video?
* How confident are you about your above judgment (the believability, the truthfulness, and the credibility of the video)?
* Overall how would you describe your feelings after watching this video?
* Please indicate the extent you have felt this way after watching the video.
* I find the topic of this news INVOLVING.
* I find the topic of this news PERSONALLY RELEVANT.
* I find the topic of this news INTERESTING.
You answer each of these with answers that range from "extremely unbelievable/truthful/whatever/" or "not very/a little/strongly disagree" to "extremely believable/truthful/whatever" to "very/a lot//strongly agree".
The trouble with this style of questionnaire is that while all of this is subjective, their seems to be "correct" answers.
For example, if a video has been clearly edited, but the voice over that has been added still says exactly what the candidate really said, is that truthful or believable or not? Likewise, what if the video is unedited, but you find the candidate to be lying. Is that still truthful, believable, or credible then or not?
Worse, occasionally instead of the of the choices being written from negative or unbelievable to positive or believable, it is reversed and the positive choices come before the negative choices.
In this case, how are you supposed to answer? These are the attention checks, but because all of this is subjective, there is no clear answer. Despite this, I was rejected for exactly that reason.
"Thanks for taking the survey We carefully checked your response and decided we cannot approve it Your response shows that you did not recognize both questions with options in a reverse order"
I did recognize that the questions were backwards occasionally, but because there is no clear answer of what you should choose, I guess I chose wrong? Maybe I should have marked that I found the videos believable when I didn't?
The trouble with this test is because the fake videos did say things the candidates were real, I would often say I found them truthful even when I didn't find them credible or believable. After all, the voice over may have been fake and the videos edited, but the things that were being said were either identical to the original videos, or were something Trump or Biden would actually say. If it's true in spirit, is that not a form of truthfulness, even if it's clear the video has been edited and therefore not credible?
Likewise, when a candidate would say something I find to be untrue, I would mark it as such, even if the video was not at all edited.
Given how subjective the entire thing is, it's hardly fair to reject anyone for answering honestly, at least, in my opinion.
Advice to Requester
Just use actual attention checks. Don't make attention checks that are completely subjective and are worse, easy to miss.When someone answers the same 12 questions over nearly 100 times, it might be easy for them to miss that the ordering of a single line of answers has been changed slightly once or twice.
Furthermore, when there is no clear answer, it can hardly be considered an attention check at all. In which case, it should not be included!
Apr 4, 2024 | 10 workers found this helpful.
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A research survey about fake news sharing on social media(~ 20 minutes) - $2.50
Unrated
Unrated
Rejected (Unfair)
$10.55 / hour
00:14:13 / completion time
- HIT Rejected
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Thanks for taking the survey We carefully checked your response and decided we cannot approve it Your response did not recognize one or more reversely coded questions in the survey
Mar 1, 2024 | 10 workers found this helpful.
chris_mcclellan Average Pace
A research survey about fake news sharing on social media(~ 25 minutes) - $2.50
Low
Unacceptable
Rejected
$12.77 / hour
00:11:45 / completion time
- HIT Rejected
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Answering honestly to every question still got me rejected. I even made a mental note that the order of the questions changes for each headline. Was given the note "Thanks for taking the survey We carefully checked your response and decided we cannot approve it Your response shows that you did not recognize both questions with options in a reverse order"
Apr 4, 2024 | 3 workers found this helpful.