Relaunching Turk Survey
Today we relaunched the Turk survey. Turk is a service provided by Amazon. They call it the “artificial artificial intelligence”. People from all over the world can submit and complete little tasks for pennies. We are paying people $.05 to $.10 per survey taken. It will be interesting to see if we can get accurate data from Turk. It is amazing to me that people on Turk will actually take a survey for less than a dime.
In the past two hours about 30 people have taken the survey. I was worried that all we would get from this survey is foreigners. It seems like a dime would be worth it for someone from India, but in the US it would have to be more of a hobby. Happily 80%+ have been from the US.
Real-Time Summary Report 
Preview
(once you scroll through all the countries it is less boring)
For all of you who are dieing to take the survey and haven’t click here to take it!
Over the next few days I will be discussing questions and comments from the Turk survey, just like you can see from the past about the BYU Student Survey. I will also be giving more peeks and updates about pyxlin. Please let us know if we can answer any of you questions.
pyxlin like "The Notebook only MUCH better" « pyxlin’ - journal smart replied:
[...] like “The Notebook only MUCH better” This is the best comment of the day from the Turk survey: “I think this is a really cool idea - it would be great as an heirloom, or in fact to help [...]
April 24, 2007 at 5:17 pm. Permalink.
Can I publish "non-journal" books? « pyxlin’ - journal smart replied:
[...] do all kinds of things other than journals with this!” Here are a few comments from that Turk survey so far about this: “This service would be good for other self-publishing purposes: Family [...]
April 27, 2007 at 8:48 pm. Permalink.
Professional is Boring « pyxlin’ - journal smart replied:
[...] is Boring Here is the Turk comment of the day, this one made me laugh: “good survey except question was not professional [...]
April 30, 2007 at 8:29 pm. Permalink.
26% of personal journals are on PC or Mac. « pyxlin’ - journal smart replied:
[...] of personal journals are on PC or Mac. Of the 900+ Mechanical Turk users that we have surveyed, 1 out of 4 personal diaries/journals (26%) are kept on a Mac or [...]
May 10, 2007 at 3:17 pm. Permalink.
Half of personal journals are still handwritten. « pyxlin’ - journal smart replied:
[...] of personal journals are still handwritten. We have now surveyed 1000 plus Amazon Mechanical Turk users about personal journals. Here are some interesting about those who keep a personal [...]
May 14, 2007 at 3:28 pm. Permalink.
Security Questions « pyxlin’ - journal smart replied:
[...] In the 2000 surveys we have conducted between Turk users and BYU students, the only concern has been whether or not pyxlin will be secure enough to [...]
May 29, 2007 at 5:00 pm. Permalink.
Question & Answer « pyxlin - journal smart replied:
[...] & Answer Yesterday we got a fantastic comment from a Turk user. I have split the comment up into sections so I can respond to each suggestion one by one. [...]
June 4, 2007 at 8:50 pm. Permalink.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk converts 26% of surveys into solid leads! « pyxlin - journal smart replied:
[...] Mechanical Turk converts 26% of surveys into solid leads! About two months ago, I started a survey on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This survey started as a small school project. I never expected [...]
June 6, 2007 at 2:51 pm. Permalink.
Why I Switched from Handwritten to an Online Personal Journal : Neal Harmon replied:
[...] not alone. As Jeffrey conducted a survey for pyxlin with almost 600 students at BYU and folks over at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, we discovered that 48 percent of these folks still write their personal journals by [...]
September 19, 2007 at 5:17 pm. Permalink.