Mechanical - Turk

While MTurk offers many benefits, there are also some challenges and limitations, including:

And that, Paul thought, was the only real victory the Turk ever granted anyone. mechanical turk

Paul understood. The secret of the Turk was not gears or springs or magic. It was a man—a living, breathing, thinking man—hiding in the dark, moving the arm by a system of levers, seeing the board through a mirror, playing chess in silence for hours, for years, for a lifetime. Johann was not an assistant. Johann was the Turk. While MTurk offers many benefits, there are also

: If one Worker consistently provides answers that differ from the majority, the system would automatically "flag" them for manual review or prevent them from taking future HITs in that batch. While MTurk offers many benefits