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. | Abandoned | Occurs when an accepted HIT’s time has run out. If high, this stat can negatively impact your qualifications. |
. | API | Application Programming Interface |
. | Approved | Subset of the Submitted HITs that have been approved by the Requester. If high, this stat will positively impact your qualifications. |
. | auto-approve | Requesters can define a time after which all un-evaluated HITs will be automatically approved. mTurk will auto-approve any un-evaluated HIT after 30 days. |
. | AWS | Amazon Web Services |
. | CAPTCHA | Having a worker enter warped or obscured text as a way to prevent bots from doing HITs. Will appear at the top of the HIT page after every 35 HITs. |
. | Dashboard | The homepage for your stats: summaries of how many HITs you’ve completed, cash earned, reject rates, etc. |
. | gotcha | HITs with a known answer, used to vet workers. Used on Turker Nation forums, mostly to describe “Are these items different” HITs. |
. | HIT | Human Intelligence Task. An individual, self-contained task on mTurk. |
. | HIT group | A group of similar HITs, contained in one entry on the list of available HITs. |
. | mTurk | short for Mechanical Turk |
. | Pending | Subset of the Submitted HITs waiting for Requester evaluation. This stat has no impact on your qualifications. |
. | Qualification | A qualification is a value either earned through a test or assigned by a Requester that allows or restricts your participation in a given HIT. |
. | Rejected | Subset of the Submitted HITs that have been rejected by the Resquester. If high, this stat can negatively impact your qualifications. |
. | Requester | An individual or company posting HITs on mTurk |
. | Research Q/ RQ | Research Questions. Specifically refers to the NowNow and Askville HITs. |
. | Script | A small piece of code that controls a software application to a user’s needs. A Script does not run independently, like a program, but embedded in the software itself. |
. | Status | The Status pages give you 45 days of daily detailed HIT reports. The daily status lists all HITs completed on a given day. |
. | Submitted | On the Dashboard, submitted refers to all completed HITs. This number has no impact on your qualifications. |
. | Turker | An mTurk worker |