Over the past four decades, countless Calvin students taking “Introduction to Psychology” have served as subjects for faculty research projects. Now Calvin’s Center for Social Research has a new tool ...

Sometimes, all you need is a virtual sweatshop to get things done. You need to do a lot of mind-numbing, repetitive tasks and you don’t want to pay much for them. The solution may be Amazon’s ...

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File this one under inevitable but hilarious. Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans, and indeed researchers show that nearly half of its "turkers" ...

A subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides a Web services system that uses people to perform tasks better handled by humans than computers. Mechanical Turk is a "crowdsourcing" system, in which ...

Volunteers are using Mechanical Turk, an Amazon.com Web service, to comb over pictures from Google Earth in hopes of finding missing adventurer Steve Fossett Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk is enlisting ...

Missing aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett is lost somewhere in 10,000 square miles of Nevada desert. A traditional and comprehensive rescue effort has been in progress for days, but it is difficult ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a website that allows companies to post jobs for online workers. These workers perform tasks by computer at home and receive a payment for completing each task. The payment ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. For one month, I became the ...