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upvoteby jan_Inkepa3 hours ago|
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our of curiosity, can you say what your use of it was?
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upvoteby x0xMaximus3 hours ago|
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Initially the annotation of biomedical literature (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25592589/) but left academia for commercial use where we transitioned to arbitrage the market research and ephemeral task markets. It was essentially a research panel with a underdeveloped UI for tasks.. so abstract away AMT's tooling so it can be used by any buyer in the ResTech, Political Polling and Data Annotation space

My favorite part of AMT is always going to be figuring out that if we only paid in $0.07 intervals, their commission algorithm would round down to the nearest whole cent when their 20% commission resulted in a fractional cent on the unit transaction level, not the monthly invoice level. Was ultimately worth it to have implemented https://git.generalresearch.com/panels/amt-jb/tree/jb/flow/a...

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upvoteby swyx2 hours ago|
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> My favorite part of AMT is always going to be figuring out that if we only paid in $0.07 intervals, their commission algorithm would round down to the nearest whole cent when their 20% commission resulted in a fractional cent on the unit transaction level, not the monthly invoice level.

can someone ELI5 because what in the office space

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upvoteby ramses01 hours ago|
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Go watch Superman III for more details...
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upvoteby owebmaster1 hours ago|
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20% of 0.07 was billed as 1 cent, not 1.4 nor rounded up to 2.
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upvoteby testbjjl1 hours ago|
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It was cheaper and looser automated billing practices than current AI “solutions”?
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upvoteby loremm3 hours ago|
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I truly have no idea what this website is saying https://generalresearch.com/
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upvoteby DrewADesign3 hours ago|
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It kind of reminds me of those fake tech ads those guys put up in the NYC subway:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bT...

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upvoteby skinfaxi3 hours ago|
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Why it's Transactional Systems for Ephemeral Tasks, don't you know? No but same here. The other pages lead to more confusion.
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upvoteby freehorse2 hours ago|
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My favourite part is the "our customers" section [0], starting with

> Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation

I am not sure if they want to convey what I think I am reading or not.

[0] https://generalresearch.com/mission/#:~:text=Our%20Customers

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upvoteby x0xMaximus43 minutes ago|
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Buyer A is presented with the following rate card:

< 10min targeting gen pop: $3 10 <= 15min targeting gen pop: $5

Of course they'll bid saying their 14 min survey only takes 9 min to complete. Buyers try to cheat pricing strategies of exchanges just as much as respondents try to cheat buyers on survey platforms. Both parties can't be trusted and have adverse incentives.

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upvoteby muragekibicho36 minutes ago|
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Perhaps they're targeting a super specific niche. Like somebody who sees WXET Ephemereal and yelps in triumph "that's my quant!".
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upvoteby sswaner51 minutes ago|
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“ General Research combines coordinated operations to identify and neutralize foreign actors using technological advancements, international covert operations, and networking analysis as an Internet Service Provider.”

What is so hard to understand????

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upvoteby rajamaka2 hours ago|
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I think it's a satirical website aimed at poking fun at corporate-linkedin-speak
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upvoteby x0xMaximus1 hours ago|
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Wish we didn’t even need one
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upvoteby tourist2d3 hours ago|
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It smells like they don't know what they're doing. Had a lol at the mission page accidentally implying their customers are unethical though:

> Our Customers

> Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation; our customers demand the best tools and security ...

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upvoteby DrewADesign2 hours ago|
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At least they’re ripe! I hate unripe customers, rife with astringency, sharp vegetal notes, and an unpleasant, unyielding texture.
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upvoteby m3rc2 hours ago|
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What's up with the part of the website where you are talking about "neutralized foreign actors", was that also using contracted Mechanical Turk labor?
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upvoteby x0xMaximus2 hours ago|
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The industry is so backwards, there are residential proxy companies that are directly paid by one of the largest market research firms. I have discussed this at length https://www.reddit.com/r/Marketresearch/comments/1s2tl0o/ope...

It should be a bipartisan issue that a Swedish company is paying a UAE Residential Proxy company [1] to build tools that allow people from anywhere in the world to take US political polls that are used by both parties to collect election data.

Just for starters, you can't even think about soliciting online work from a panel without a robust residential proxy detection methods. We had to build our own:

`wget -N 'https://grip.net/files/grip-proxy-30d.mmdb'`

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOmeQcwSK3o flagged by Nokia Deepfield and CTRL for it's involvement in botnets

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upvoteby parineum1 hours ago|
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Polling data isn't some guaranteed right or something. If you ask the Internet questions and then sell the collated answers, it's your job to authenticate the responses or your polls will be wildly wrong and people will stop buying them.

Which is already the case and nobody but a bunch of campaign contractors who can't justify their do nothing jobs anymore cares.

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upvoteby schoen1 hours ago|
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I just remembered that in the story "Simulacron-3", there is ostensibly a law requiring people to respond to opinion polls. It is illegal to refuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3

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upvoteby x0xMaximus1 hours ago|
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Exactly, it’s a beautiful thing when the market is rational https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CINT.ST/
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upvoteby charcircuit2 hours ago|
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Someone using an IP that a geoip database says is US, doesn't mean that person is a US voter. The existence of proxies on the internet is a feature.
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upvoteby x0xMaximus2 hours ago|
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Obviously, a problem not even fully addressed by L2’s datasets. Sure, but the use of proxies to masquerade the identity of users being sold to researcher buyers that paid for a different service is fraud
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upvoteby charcircuit33 minutes ago|
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It makes me question why the surveys don't ask for the users country. That way they cd can figure it out without trying to guess it based off of IP.
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upvoteby x0xMaximus11 minutes ago|
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Users/respondents lie, and many buyers/researchers are neo-luddites; most C level still come from the telemarketing days. A fun example: mobile targeting is terrible when off wifi because all survey platforms uniq identify users based off their IPv4, so any T-Mobile LTE users in the same city going through the same CGNAT often share profiling data that ends up conflicting, which ends up meaning they don't get sent into the best survey(s). The issue is even worse in heavy IPv6 countries like India+France.
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upvoteby BobbyTables259 minutes ago|
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That’s top-tier “OfficeSpace” thinking there…
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upvoteby testbjjl1 hours ago|
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Sounds like your program manager was smart and valuable to the company. Do you have any plans to replace the service/data provided by MTurk?
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