http://www.owlboy.com/blog/2008/12/07/mechanical-turking-for-amazons-iphone-app/ Personal Blog of Bryan Bortz - Life, Art, Media. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:41:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.owlboy.com/blog/2008/12/07/mechanical-turking-for-amazons-iphone-app/comment-page-1/#comment-103608 OwlBoy Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:15:01 +0000 http://www.owlboy.com/blog/?p=511#comment-103608 Oh I did not see that. That would explain why I never got photos of people, or obviously not findable things (except for that mailbox heh) Oh I did not see that. That would explain why I never got photos of people, or obviously not findable things (except for that mailbox heh)

]]> http://www.owlboy.com/blog/2008/12/07/mechanical-turking-for-amazons-iphone-app/comment-page-1/#comment-103607 Andy Baio Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:10:02 +0000 http://www.owlboy.com/blog/?p=511#comment-103607 Did you notice that Amazon was also doing a first pass on the photos for $.01/each, asking turkers to simply answer whether the product *might* be sold on Amazon, with a yes/no answer? I'm assuming they used these very quick HITs to weed out the garbage before creating the $.10 hits in the second pass. Did you notice that Amazon was also doing a first pass on the photos for $.01/each, asking turkers to simply answer whether the product *might* be sold on Amazon, with a yes/no answer? I’m assuming they used these very quick HITs to weed out the garbage before creating the $.10 hits in the second pass.

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