SURVEYS WITHOUT A CODE<\/b><\/p>\n
This may be old news for some of us turkers, but we have to keep in mind Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is a digital labor platform with new workers being approved and included every day, thus it isn\u2019t bad to share some of the knowledge we\u2019ve had after working here for so many years.<\/p>\n
Lately, I\u2019ve been noticing there is an increase of surveys that when finished, don\u2019t supply any type of code you can put on AMT, to let the researcher or requester know you have completed the task and to be compensated for your time and work.<\/p>\n
Clearly, it makes us workers feel frustrated and that we lost our time, and even return the HITs out of fear of being rejected without a valid reason, report it for not having a code, or even blocking requesters for their lack of attention they put into their own surveys.<\/p>\n
Obviously I can\u2019t assure it is going to work 100% of the time, but if you enter your Mturk ID number in the survey code field or enter the survey message you received at the end and submit, oftentimes a follow email explaining your situation will clear a lot of these up.<\/p>\n
And if there is a requester reading this, you could display some fixed code if respondents comply with your quality check criteria and if not you could display something like \u201cSorry you did not complete this survey sufficiently carefully\u201d don\u2019t just assume that not putting a code means workers would understand they didn\u2019t pass your quality check.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t assure you the reasons behind this, but most of the time it\u2019s just an oversight on the requester\u2019s side, after all, they\u2019re humans and make mistakes too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SURVEYS WITHOUT A CODE This may be old news for some of us turkers, but we have to keep in mind Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is a digital labor platform with new workers being approved and included every day, thus it isn\u2019t bad to share some of the knowledge we\u2019ve had after working here for … <\/p>\n