The Mechanical Turk Diaries

Voices of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk


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I like to ask questions about quantum physics

I’m fairly new to MTurk. I have a graduate research degree. I learned about MTurk from a student project server at a graduate art school where they post current student projects and I noticed this. It had a project status and completion screen on Amazon that a student was participating in, and I was intrigued. I read a little about it as an interesting form of entertainment, and I’ve found now that the jobs are rewarding in surprising ways—such as doing research, that’s probably the most fun for me, or asking science questions and answering other’s science or just general life questions. I’m not an expert on every subject, but I like to give friendly advice to people who need it, especially when it’s critical, like when someone is in need of emergency shelter, or if they have a medical problem to offer remedies that could work. Also, I like to ask questions about quantum physics, solar energy, and alternative fuels, and astronomy and other things I don’t know that much about. I actually feel like I am contributing to the discussion and promoting science. Writing clearly helps, and now I’m doing something with it. I’m one of these over-educated under-employed generation X-ers. I like being in school, I like the computer or library sciences because I enjoy answering the research questions and I also like the visual arts and avant-garde jazz. My current goal is to save up for some decent headphones. I’ve already made $4.00 dollars in 3 days! I like the art and photo edits too, like the postcard stuff and arts research.

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