This week we're going to focus on what it is like to be a participant in online studies. First, we're going to do a bit of work online ourselves to get a sense of the type of tasks people have available and how your experiment might compare. Second, we will talk about the communities that online workers have developed to exchange information about tasks and people requesting work. Finally, we'll dive into the ethics of online experientation including labor rates, issues of fairness, and possible legal issues involved in work-for-hire.
Wherein your humble professor attempts to increase his salary by doing online experiments for one hour. He also tries out worker tools that give information on requesters. He offers his first proverb of online data collection: "pay generously, have good quality/instruction checks, and disappear quickly"
How to fork and clone a project on github.
Basic introduction to Javascript in the browser and the built-in tools.