Mechanical Turk Workers Mostly US-Based
(12/01/2006)
I've got some results to share from a questionaire deployed on Mechanical Turk to gather stats and feedback from the Turk workforce.
Here's a taste of the info gathered from the first 100 responses: a breakdown of country of origin. As suspected, Amazon's U.S.-centric payment system has resulted in a mostly-U.S. workforce, but a few workers from elsewhere are participating.
I also see this same geographic spread in the web stats for this blog:
I'll leave you with one comment from Finland-based worker that sums-up the payment issue nicely:
India, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Romania,
Singapore, Thailand, and (yes!) Turkey.The idea is very intriguing, but unfortunately U.S. businesses aren't taking advantage of it and the service isn't open to bold people elsewhere.
Posted in Labels: crowdsourcing, experiments, mechanicalturk, workers Posted by Sherwood
I'm slightly surprised by the lack of Australians, but given there's no amazon.com.au and shipping from the US is pricey I can see why.
Yes, shipping from here is very pricey, although lately there has been some discussion about amending that--among other things--given the dollar has been rather weak and it doesn't seem like that is going to change quickly.
I was expecting more than 4% from UK
I would say I expected more than 4% also from England.