More Questions for Requesters

Discussion in 'Requesters' started by FTDL, Aug 14, 2019.

  1. FTDL

    FTDL Turker

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    1. I would like to know if the WorkerID assigned in the CSV file is unique to individual workers or not. What we're trying to do is track workers who have been doing a lot of our tasks. I think that the WorkerIDs are unique to every individual worker, but I'm not sure.

    2. For other requesters that have submitted their own HITs, what metrics or criteria do you guys use for approving and rejecting a worker's submissions, especially for tasks that involve classifying images? We would like to know if there is a way for us to quality check results without manually going by each worker's submission one by one? If there isn't, then that would defeat the purpose of having external groundtruthing. There must be some way to automate it be it programmatically or other means, especially since we plan on submitting a batch of over 5000 tasks and have 3 workers per task working on it. It would be unreasonable for us to look over 15,000 submissions.

    3. Is there an option to require workers to complete all the tasks before they get their submissions reviewed? I doubt this but I would like to make sure. My team was concerned about this because when we checked our results, we noticed that many workers would come in and work on one or two tasks and leave. We would like to know if there is a way for us to either require workers to complete all the tasks or something like that. My idea is that I can create a custom qualification criteria where if I see a worker has done quite a bit of tasks for us, he can do our future batches. Would increasing the general qualification criteria help too?
     
  2. billy

    billy Active Turker

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    1.Yes worker IDs are unique to each person.
    2. Use a trusted workforce. High quality work should be your goal, not how to reject incorrect work. The better your workforce, the better your results. In the grand scheme of things, 15000 hits is small.
    3. Increasing general qualifications is pointless, a worker can gain 10000 hits in under two weeks. There is a way to require workers to complete all tasks but if that is beyond your coding abilities then Mturk does not have a click and go button. Often people will abandon mid HIT because the HIT is too long for the pay, it is not well designed, or they feel they cannot complete it accurately. There are other reasons like lightning striking their house, a plague of locusts, or attack by a lion.
     
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