Amazon - Mechanical Turk
Updated at 2015-09-19 21:30
Mechanical Turk allows creating microtask assingments on the web.
The most robust way of doing it is by using an external question and posting the tasks through the API.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ExternalQuestion xmlns="http://mechanicalturk.amazonaws.com/...">
<ExternalURL>https://example.com/turk</ExternalURL>
<FrameHeight>620</FrameHeight>
</ExternalQuestion>
Price is the assingment reward and +20% for Amazon. When posting a task with 10 or more assignments, you have to pay 20% extra, but you can circle around that by creating multiple HITs with 9 assignments each. Only minus is that a single worker can do th same HIT multiple times, which might be an issue in some tasks.
Reward pricing depends on:
- wanted result quality, but you must then add qualifications
- assignment time, more time it takes, more you should be paying
- how fast you want the results, paying above the median award
US minimum rate: $7.25 / h
Median turk in 2010 $1.38 / h
High-end workers $8 - $14 / h