Fwd: Financial incentives and Turker performance
Chris Callison-Burch
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Delip Rao <deli...@gmail.com>
> Date: February 22, 2010 2:43:04 PM PST
> To: Chris Callison-Burch <c...@cs.jhu.edu>
> Subject: Financial incentives and Turker performance
>
> Interesting Y! paper suggesting:
>
> "increased financial incentives increase the quantity, but not the
> quality, of work performed by participants, where the difference
> appears to be due to an “anchoring” effect: workers who were paid more
> also perceived the value of their work to be greater, and thus were no
> more motivated than workers paid less. In contrast with compensation
> levels, we find the details of the compensation scheme do
> matter—specifically, a “quota” system results in better work for less
> pay than an equivalent “piece rate” system. Although counterintuitive,
> these findings are consistent with previous laboratory studies, and
> may have real-world analogs as well"
>
> http://research.yahoo.com/pub/2808