Justin--- Thanks! Not sure if this answers your question, but we do talk about the following things: -Worker motivations (Ch 3) -Requester motivations (ch 4) -Payment and motivations (ch 7) -workers and human subjects (ch 8) -ethics including working conditions, information assymetry cheers! Justin Schell wrote:
Congrats on the publication. Is there any discussion of the labor policies of MTurk in the book?
Justin
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Matthew Pittman <mpittman@uoregon.edu <mailto:mpittman@uoregon.edu>> wrote:
"A great guide for novice and expert MTurk users, workers and requesters alike."
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