Behind the Enemy Lines

No, I could not really think of that. I do not filter my blog posts through any PR department, and I have written plenty of stories that received wide attention. And going through a PR department typically means that the resulting document lacks any punch and originality. (Been there, done that, for other types of communication.) If I could think that people could leverage the post to post their negative preconceptions about business schools, NYU, Turnitin, academic, US, or whatever else they hate, I would have not posted the blog post to start with. In most of my blog posts I try to propose and describe solutions, even when I "whine". (See, for example, http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/plea-to-amazon-fix-… and http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/12/mechanical-turk-now… The blog post about cheating was not an exception. The reason that it was in my draft folder was because I did not want to put it out just to talk about cheating. The post felt incomplete. Yes, I could complain. But after that, what? It took me a while to realize that people did not cheat in some of the assignments, but tried in others, was because some assignments were designed to withstand cheating. And that was a point worth talking about.

$1 seems like a frightfully trivial amount of money to receive for a well-considered answer. See: "Pay enough, or don't pay at all." http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/05/pay-enough-or-dont-…

Since Dan mentioned that Amazon Mechanical Turk is being used to do the reviews, as a founder it may be useful to know what the demographics of such users are: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-demographics-of…

There's some more information (another write-up) here: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/04/want-to-improve-sal…

You have an interesting blog there with a unique perspective (http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/can-crowdsourcing-s… as an example). Given that this is your first (visible) submission since you registered 553 days ago, I'm sure it would be the pleasure of many here if we saw your posts being submitted more often.

Take a look at this article: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/07/mechanical-turk-low… You will see that the low wages are a direct result of a lack of a good reputation system

Thanks for that - this set is from Feb 2010 http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-demographics-of… * United States: 46.80% (65% female) * India: 34.00% (70% male) * Miscellaneous: 19.20%

When we were creating http://markiter.com We did a blog post referencing a study: http://blog.markiter.com/#turk http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanical-turk-dem… Which has been updated recently. Some high quality data presented in a clear way. http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-demographics-of…

Hmm, from what I remember, Reproducibility became a big issue in SIGMOD. In 2008 they introduced some new requirements when submitting a paper. http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2007/08/experimental-repeat…

Here's my reference: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanical-turk-dem…

survey the MTurk population itself a few people have done this already http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanical-turk-dem… http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/

It's the same as Mechanical Turk's: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanical-turk-dem…

There’s a common perception that Mechanical Turk thrives on exploiting 3rd world labor. This doesn’t appear to be the case. From: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanical-turk-dem… and http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2008/07/mechanical-turk-demographics.html 82% of turkers are from the US, Canada or the UK and over 75% have a Bachelor’s degree or higher.