Paying proportionally, up to fifteen times, for the same project output is waste, and the necessity of multiplying work also pushes micro task workers into lower rates with no pay increases.
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Requiring requesters to pay proportionally (e.g. up to 15 times) for work per project result in waste. The necessity of multiplication of work also subjects micro task workers to lower rates and lack of payment increases.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018), 1 Problems in Centralized Mechanical Turk, p. 7 https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 · source PDF
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centralized platforms using redundant task assignment
restated_bykaal:claim:4755632-012 The necessity of duplicating micro task work depresses worker pay: it subjects micro task workers to lower rat...
restated_bykaal:claim:4755632-011 To form consensus and offset worker error, requesters in centralized micro task structures assign teams of up ...
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