Comments on: The Mechanical Turk Experiment: How I made $2.18 an hour – and how you can too! http://coinnovative.com/the-mechanical-turk-experiment-how-i-made-218-an-hour-and-how-you-can-too/ Customer co-design, lead user theory, wisdom of crowds, online marketing, and crowdsourcing. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:14:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Henrique http://coinnovative.com/the-mechanical-turk-experiment-how-i-made-218-an-hour-and-how-you-can-too/comment-page-1/#comment-7214 Henrique Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:26:09 +0000 http://coinnovative.com/?p=267#comment-7214 It's very interesting to actually know how much you could make in an hour in Mechanical Turk. I don't know how much I would make in an hour, probably not more than you. What is actually great to see is that it is possible to make some money with it. There is a great Art work by Aaron Koblin, called: The Sheep Market, where the artist raises critical thoughts into crowd-sourcing by using it to form a huge image out of 10.000 sheeps drawn by Mechanical Turk users at a price of 0.02 ($USD) each. More on it at: <a href="http://www.thesheepmarket.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesheepmarket.com/</a> Anyway, great post, it does gives us an clearer idea on the scope of Amazon's initiative. By the way 600 euros is approximately 2.3 times Brazil's minimum wage... It’s very interesting to actually know how much you could make in an hour in Mechanical Turk. I don’t know how much I would make in an hour, probably not more than you. What is actually great to see is that it is possible to make some money with it.

There is a great Art work by Aaron Koblin, called: The Sheep Market, where the artist raises critical thoughts into crowd-sourcing by using it to form a huge image out of 10.000 sheeps drawn by Mechanical Turk users at a price of 0.02 ($USD) each. More on it at: http://www.thesheepmarket.com/

Anyway, great post, it does gives us an clearer idea on the scope of Amazon’s initiative.

By the way 600 euros is approximately 2.3 times Brazil’s minimum wage…

]]> By: Glenn http://coinnovative.com/the-mechanical-turk-experiment-how-i-made-218-an-hour-and-how-you-can-too/comment-page-1/#comment-2974 Glenn Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:40:52 +0000 http://coinnovative.com/?p=267#comment-2974 I think what your point is here is that crowd-sourcing exclusively for monetary incentive is most probably not all that affective. Crowd-sourcing works best either when the level of individual commitment is low (e.g. netflix rating) or with social capital in an abundance economy (e.g. stackoverflow). Leveraging the feeling of reciprocity doesn't hurt either. I think what your point is here is that crowd-sourcing exclusively for monetary incentive is most probably not all that affective.

Crowd-sourcing works best either when the level of individual commitment is low (e.g. netflix rating) or with social capital in an abundance economy (e.g. stackoverflow). Leveraging the feeling of reciprocity doesn’t hurt either.

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