I apologize if this is in the wrong place or has been asked before, Google and our Wiki wasn't helping much help. I wonder how "Accept & Work", impacts returns when you get the Pintrest message "No HIT's Available". It seams the only option at that point is to "return" the HIT. Does this impact our ranking at all?

 

Return % doesn't matter.

 

There is a ranking for returned hits, and expired hits, but I think I have literally never seen any requester use it, so it's safe to not worry about your returns and expires (I mean, unless you're doing like thousands a day lol)

 

but does Amazon factor it in when granting qualifications or Master's etc? Based on the responses so far I'd assume that "returning" the unavailable HIT does in fact impact that rating.

 

Why do they bother to calculate the metric then?

 

Because they can. It is hidden by default however but they could technically use it as a qual.... nobody does though so :dunno:

 

Did a little more research, finally got the old gray matter in gear. From https://www.mturk.com/worker/help
Should have looked there first. Thanks for the input.

 

What about expired, eh? This is something that causes me a lot of stress. I try not to let any time out each day, but I do end up with about one each day unfortunately.

 

Returned and expired are nothing to worry about, certainly nothing that should be causing you any stress. They are metrics that Amazon can track and they do, but not ones that are important or that are in use in any meaningful way. Once upon a time, a few, and by that I mean, very very few requesters, made use of those metrics, but it was used so little and doesn't matter to the point that Amazon removed them from the dashboard. Both are metrics that were once readily available on your mTurk dashboard alongside approval and rejection, but they removed them because that's how little you should pay attention to them.