10/21 - Silly Saturday!

So as discussed yesterday, I got a Pixel 2 XL today. I really like this phone so far. I was so happy to open the app drawer and see zero bloatware and nothing but useful Google apps.

 

Double check you've answered every single question. TO has a rejection w/ partial pay for accidentally missing a Q.

 

Thanks

 

Title: Survey on your honest beliefs and thoughts (PC access only)(~ 6 minutes) | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Minju Han [A1ZTMLZ5IGZT1A] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 4.28] [Fast: 4.58] [Comm: 3.67] [Fair: 4.71] [Reviews: 32] [ToS: 0] TO 2: [Rate: $6.45/hr] [Pen: 0.27 days] [Res: -- of 0] [Rec: 100% of 4] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $0.70 Duration: 30 minutes Available: 45 Description: $0.70. Survey on your honest thoughts, different tasks Requirements: Exc: [-765560535-61527] has not been granted; Total approved HITs is not less than 100; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95; Location is one of: US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.25.7​

 

Minju Han [A1ZTMLZ5IGZT1A] Survey on your honest beliefs and thoughts (PC access only)(~ 6 minutes) - $0.70 | PANDA

Fair

Unrated

Unrated

$9.30 / hour
00:04:31 / completion time

Pros: Fairly quick and simple survey. Decent pay.
Cons: Some reading.

To read Minju Han's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Title: Brief Healthcare Survey(~ 10 minutes) | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: RAND Health (Non-Profit Research) [A2UWG8Q1YQCMJJ] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 5.00] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 16] [ToS: 0] TO 2: [Rate: $16.78/hr] [Pen: 0.02 days] [Res: -- of 0] [Rec: 100% of 4] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $1.00 Duration: 60 minutes Available: 1 Description: Answer a survey about your health, healthcare utilization, demographic questions. Please only accept this HIT once as duplicate worker IDs will not be approved. Thank you! Requirements: Exc: [62021-61432] has not been granted; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95; Location is one of: US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.25.7​

 

You are dead to me!

 

My coding habits go into overdrive on the weekends, because it's so slow.

In a major "in retrospect, that seems obvious" moment, I was inspired by an old post by Kadauchi to modify my default script template, so that it's quicker to write simple scripts for those one-off HITs where there's enough to write a script, but that you'll likely never see again.

Here's the skeleton for rapid script-writing in mTurk iFrames that I've put together so far:

Code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         New Userscript (mTurk Work Frame Default Skeleton)
// @namespace    ,
// @version      1
// @description  .
// @author       Cuyler Stuwe (,)
// @include      *
// @grant        GM_info
// ==/UserScript==

function isInMturkIframe() {
    return ( window !== window.top && (document.referrer.includes("mturk.com/mturk/preview") || document.referrer.includes("mturk.com/mturk/accept") || document.referrer.includes("mturk.com/mturk/continue") || document.referrer.includes("mturk.com/mturk/return") || document.referrer.includes("mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept") || document.referrer.includes("worker.mturk.com/projects/")));
}
if (!isInMturkIframe()) {return;}

function passSanityCheck() {
    // RETURNING TRUE HERE MEANS THAT THE SCRIPT WILL RUN
    return false;
}

function runOnStart() {
    // CODE THAT RUNS AS SOON AS HIT IS LOADED GOES HERE
}

function keyListener(event) {
    if(event.type === 'keydown') {

        // SCRIPT KEYDOWN CODE GOES HERE

    }
    else if(event.type === 'keyup') {

        // SCRIPT KEYUP CODE GOES HERE

    }
}

function clickListener(event) {

    // SCRIPT CLICK CODE GOES HERE
    switch(event.target) {
        default:
            break;
    }

}

(function main() {

    if(!passSanityCheck()) {
        console.log(`FAILED SANITY CHECK: ${GM_info.script.name}`);
        return;
    }
    else {
        console.log(`PASSED SANITY CHECK: ${GM_info.script.name}`);
    }

    runOnStart();

    document.addEventListener('keydown keyup', keyListener);
    document.addEventListener('click', clickListener);
})();

 

I went to take a nap and it turned into more sleep..

meh PE: $49.20

 

If you don't like your PE, I'll take it.

 

In my FB group, I wrote about how work queue managers are something that we sorely need, in an era where the few proficient mTurk script writers are spinning their wheels re-writing Panda Crazy and other similar tools that already exist.

A work queue manager that automatically balances tabs is on my to-do list.

It would also have simple project sorting / selection, like "only open HITs with reward values between [X] and [Y]", or "only open HITs with words [blah] as the requester".

Unlike Ethraiel, I still think Amazon will let us use WWW for a while, and since it loads HITs faster there for me, that's what I'm likely to build it on. Though I'll port it to Worker if WWW ends up being totally discontinued.

 

If I have learned anything from reddit it is that HR is not your friend.

 

Croma Lab [A2A7O851QSLWZB] Paraphrase Sentences 2 - $0.80 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$20.72 / hour
00:02:19 / completion time

Pros: Ten paraphrases. Pretty easy.
Cons:

To read Croma Lab's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

And this is how you fu*#ed up your sleep cycle again..

 

He doesn't actually think it's meh, he is humble bragging

 

I'm more of an outright braggart, myself.

 

Looking at my logs it would be at ~$100 if I didn't pass out =p

 

To be fair, it is his most fluent language. Hard to shake that native tongue.