Inside the Internet's Hidden Science Factory

tcd004 writes Sarah Marshall has completed roughly 20,000 academic surveys. Clay Hamilton has finished about 40,000. Marshall and Hamilton are part of a small but highly-active community of paid online study participants on Amazon's Mechanical Turk who generate data at break-neck speed to fuel modern scientific research. But can a person who's completed thousands of surveys still provide good data? Here's a look at the humans feeding science from inside the machine.

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I can see where this is going.

[Anonymous Coward]

Name: Sarah Marshall

Age: 18-34

Education: Overqualified.

Employment: FIlling in surveys like this one

Hobbies: Writing about filling in surveys like this one

Re:No

[NatasRevol]

At least he's truthful that he's not truthful.