04/12 - SpongeBob Saturday

I prefer surveys having a "back-button" when a series of questions can only be properly evaluated in relation to each other, requiring the ability to make retroactive adjustments.

For example, in a survey (without a back-button) where you rate some things on a 1-to-5 scale, you may rate something "4", then go to the next page and rate something "5" — but then another page has something that clearly deserves a higher rating than the previous thing. You can't give it a higher rating, because you already rated the previous thing "5" on the 1-to-5 scale, and you don't have a back button. You wish you could go back and change the previous responses to "3" & "4" respectively, in order to reserve the 5 for the next thing that deserves the highest rating; but without a back button, you can't do that.

In such cases, often I don't see any valid research-related reason to disallow retroactive adjustments. The only reason why I want to go back in that scenario, is to make my responses more sensible in relation to each other. Without the back-button, I can't. And that damages the quality of my responses, because the survey won't let me correct a previous response to properly express its difference relative to the subsequent response.

 

Short and easy, but didn't get a completion code. I submitted with my Worker ID and emailed the requester.

Title: Short study on trust • Accept Requester: MTURKMBDS [A34878HGH4CRFP] Contact TV: [Hrly=$17.56][Pay=Fair][Approval=1-3 days][Comm=Unrated][Rej=0][Blk=0] TO: No reviews Reward: $1.00 Duration: 00:30:00 Available: 1 Description: Short study on trust Qualifications: Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 50; Location EqualTo US

 

On Prolific today the usual completion page appeared ("Submission received ... Did everything go well") — but the status page still didn't show completion (even after waiting a bit) ... so I had to reopen the completion tab and get the code from the URL.

 

I am currently on Teatable Minds but I am canceling my User Interviews Account. I am more comfortable on the former site than the latter. As for Mturk, I am taking a break now but I will return next week.

 

Testable Minds is still a thing? I was in the closed beta through the launch and nothing ever seemed worth doing there.

 

Some quick search results:

https://forum.turkerview.com/threads/3-18-sarcastic-saturday.5037/page-4#post-2117290

https://www.reddit.com/r/TestableMinds/comments/1ij7owa/not_worth_it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TestableMinds/

YMMV

 

It's a good thing I made fun of the website. I went back to see if there were any survey's even available to me (only one for $2), and found out that I still had $11 to withdraw because of referrals.

By the way, of this $40, 13 is from referrals and 5 is from being one of the first 2000 people to sign up for the site. Most of the surveys were between $1.30 and $2 with one that was $6 and this from 2018 when they first started. So of the 124 people that used my code, only 13 of them ever made enough to withdraw. Also why I stopped using the site the same year it started.