12 month ago
Andy Baio : Study finds creditworthiness can be gauged by physical appearance - they claim the original paper is the first academic study to use Mechanical Turk
joshua : Physiognomy and moneylending - brilliant
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17 month ago
joshua : Moral psychology on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Andy Baio : Moral psychology testing on Amazon Mechanical Turk - Brendan O'Connor's blog is one of my new favorites; he works at Dolores Labs
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45 month ago
Andy Baio : Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 - 2 cents a quote, with a 98.3% success rate [via]
kellan : Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 - Okay the sheep were cute, but this is interesting. #
deusx : ESV Bible Blog - Blog Archive Mechanical Turk Recap - "For this first foray, we decided to use Mechanical Turk to verify what we created ourselvesin other words, to verify an internal database."
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53 month ago
Andy Baio : Amazon Mechanical Turk - develop questions that can only be answered by humans, make money answering them
Matthew M. Boedicker : Amazon mechanical turk, make money for doing repetitive tasks that computers aren't good at
Rod Begbie : Amazon Mechanical Turk - Get paid for grunt-work that's too complex for computers to deal with. Awesome name, and further proof that Amazon is really competing with Google, not buy.com. [via] #
plasticbag : Does anyone know if it's possible to add HITs to Amazon Mechanical Turk if you're outside the US? - I'm really interested in what I could do with mturk, but it seems like you have to have a US bank account to use it at all, which is profoundly frustrating...
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