For the past week, psychologists all over America have been freaking out. The cause of their agita was an observation by a psychology graduate student from the University of Minnesota named Max Hui ...

An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk human computing system is a handy way to get repetitive tasks done cheaply, quickly, and in ways that code can’t compete with. But is the Turk being used to perpetrate massive ...

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The use cases for MTurk are almost endless. Here's how to prepare your tasks and your workers for success Russell Smith is cofounder and CTO of Rainforest QA. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, is a ...

Amazon just raised the costs of using Mechanical Turk — its platform to let users crowd source "human intelligence tasks" to people all around the world — and researchers aren't happy, the Wall Street ...