My presentation from the "Internet as a Playground and Factory" conference.

7. Top Averaged Participation Rating
1 8.20 What sayings could make fortune cookies more realistic and interesting to open?
2 8.15 Describe your favorite HIT. What it is, how much does it pay, and how long does it take to complete.
3 7.95 Provide a list of 25 words with a common subject to be used to creat a word search puzzle.
4 7.95 how long one is working in mturk?
5 7.90 How much money do you have to be to be considered rich?
6 7.85 have people give the name of a town they want to live in.
7 7.85 have people give the name of a town they want to live in.
8 7.80 Ask people what was the last thing they spend money for online, great way to see what is profitable.
9 7.60 Have the worker fill out a survey about what city they live in, and the requester can try to get one person
from each city in America.
10 7.55 If you were given 1 million dollars, and you had to spend every penny in 24 hours, or give it back, how
would you spend it, and why?

8. Top Averaged Originality Rating
1 8.20 List of Absurd Things People Would Do Just To Make Some Extra Cash
2 8.15 What sayings could make fortune cookies more realistic and interesting to open?
3 8.00 When you first get married, people are always asking how you met each other. Fianlly, it gets boring, to tell the
same story, over and over. Write a short piece about how you turned the truth into something more interesting
or unusual or funny, just to stop them from asking!
4 7.95 If you were in charge of picking the person who would go on a new monetary bill, like a $3 bill, who would it be
and why?
5 7.90 Find funny pictures of animals with confused expressions on their face and write a caption.
6 7.80 Tell us of an invention or idea you have that could benefit our future. Make sure to tell us what you would call it
and what it would do.
7 7.70 Provide a list of 25 words with a common subject to be used to creat a word search puzzle.
8 7.65 Finish out a chapter in a fiction book that I am writing .You will be given the previous chapters and based on
them finish out the the chapter .A bonus to the best ending .
9 7.65 Finish out a chapter in a fiction book that I am writing .You will be given the previous chapters and based on
them finish out the the chapter .A bonus to the best ending .
10 7.60 Promote Mturk on your blog/website as a means to earn money to obtain Amazon Gift Certificates.

9. Top Averaged Price (in $ per HIT)
1 $28.09 Write a science fiction story for a Hollywood movie.
2 $27.83 Write a new story for an action cinema for director
3 $7.10 Finish out a chapter in a fiction book that I am writing .You will be given the previous chapters and based on them
finish out the the chapter .A bonus to the best ending .
4 $5.74 Do a Research Survey of what teams people root for by what region they come from.
5 $5.31 Tell story on how they would spend a $100 dollars.
6 $2.59 What is the best actual person's name that you have heard but would not use for your own child?
7 $1.64 Write review about top 10 games
8 $1.59 I am a doctoral student gathering reading notes for my dissertation. One of the big pains of this work is clerical -
formatting citations into a bibliographic software. I need to capture other people's lists and then pull apart the sources.
I use this format: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/07/ So I would love to have a HIT where I can upload
hundreds of these citations and then have people split them into the component pieces - author, year, date, title, type,
publisher, pages, etc. I would do this myself but lack the time to code this out in PERL OR RUBY. I did one hit myself
manually but it is not worth doing for hundreds of these things.
9 $1.56 write a 300-599 word essay on the different kinds of western saddles and their uses
10 $1.54 Create a wikipedia page on a subject that's NOT there. In order to be able to control the results, the creator must send
before and after edit copies of the html page, sending it to the hit requester via an url (eg 4shared) or an email addy.

10. Cheap Tricks Index (Average of Averages / Average Price Bid)
1 148.22 how long one is working in mturk?
2 131.14 have people give the name of a town they want to live in.
3 109.33 How much money do you have to be to be considered rich?
4 96.04 You could have participants go to a website and add one word at a time to a story. The HIT verification could
be asking them which word they submitted. The story could even have a preset theme, or it could just be
whatever the HITs come up with. Just my 2 cents.
5 77.75 The weirdest thing about my town. In one sentence.
6 77.07 Ask HIT participants to tell the number of teeth they have had crowned.
7 75.00 HIT participants to list what is their favorite HITS
8 73.21 List the age at which you stopped wetting the bed.
9 72.55 Very funny hit would be a kind of rating the jokes or some funny pictures...
10 58.06 Ask HIT participants to give a statement that can result in someone else saying the statement "That's what she
said".

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