11/28 - It's Thursday

Is there some sort of auto mod on? This review is not showing up. I plan on reposting in the coming days. If there is an issue, please let me know, but honestly, we could be running this shtuff instead of being the peons in here. This is a review of a mediocre hit, but the last half lets you know what I'm talking about. Long time turker, just got back into it. Stay safe out there kids. And if you wanna dream bigger, get in touch:

(EDIT - first half is in the $5 hit review; this is just the parts that you all should pay attention to)

***THE MOST MPORTANT PART(S): If you notice issues with hits, especially academic surveys (i.e. loaded questions/ biases), it's always good to send a message informing the requester of the problems you noticed (pro tip*). I've received some really good bonuses in the past because the info I passed along about flawed data collection, etc saved them a lot of money.

The worst that can happen is you wasted a small amount of time.

The best that can happen: I actually ended up in a full time, work from home, 6 figure avg job (after raises) off of mturk for the last 4.5 years because I took the time to message ONE requester that was new to the site just before the pandemic. He happened to be the CTO at a company for a public figure that has 9 figures wealth, that was doing some non profit work via mturk, but that led to a job in both the tech and social media realms. And I'll likely use that experience to find another job, so the experience was priceless

***I've also helped reverse thousands of rejections when I used to mturk more, ~5-15 years ago, because I reached out to requesters that were mass or unfairly rejecting workers and let them know that I would contact their review boards for cheating workers and possibly manipulating data. They take that very seriously (both the researchers and the review boards).

DO this too if you are a team player. I care more about the other people that get rejections than myself at this point because I'm doing alright.

***This actually happened with one of the four people mentioned in the recent Atlantic article(s) about cheating in academic research (Dan Ariely) when he started a new account not under his name in 2016 ('IL team' was the account). They were unfairly rejecting people (not me) at first and as soon as I contacted him directly and threatened contacting the review board, I got a response instantly (again, in 2016).

The subject of my original email is literally "Research Fraud?". To be fair, that was more in the context of him cheating workers and data being flawed due to that, but there is a paragraph in my favorite email that reads (and this is coming from me): "As far as I am concerned, every piece of data you've collected and any sort of results or conclusions you have come to can be called into question at this point.", which is what the Atlantic article is pretty much saying.
*I have the email receipts* and plan to contact the writer of the Atlantic article that came out about data manipulation (not that it will likely have much of an impact). There is no doubt in my mind that some of the people in that article were manipulating data for their personal gain. I can't say which of the four. It could be all of them, but I think based on the evidence I've seen, it's probably at least two. And I believe this is a much bigger problem than just the mentioned researchers, so it could be all four. Seemed to be a lot of finger pointing and dead end investigations from universities in order to not taint their images.

*******LASTLY: Does anyone else out there think that despite not having doctorates, etc, we could be doing polling and researching some of this stuff better than some of the people on mturk/ prolific? Especially, with all of the fraud in academia and polling discrepancies that happened this past election cycle...
I certainly do and have 'ideas' to start a company where those of us that have more experience than the people posting surveys could actually be the middle men and women that host these surveys. If you feel this way too, have skills to offer, and would possibly like to be part of something new, please send me a message.

 

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