Designing Incentives for Crowdsourcing Workers

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In a recent paper, presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), John Horton, Daniel Chen and I used a large-scale experiment to test the effect of different incentive schemes on the quality of crowdsourcing work. The results surprised us. They suggest that workers perform most accurately when the task design credibly… Read more »