Jeff Barr over at AWS blog (which should be in your newsread by now!) had a great post late last month about a specific review of the mTurk process.

Some highlights:

• "Computers can’t do everything."
• "Mechanical Turk presents a new and helpful way to spread the work inexpensively among many people."
• "We got a database for about $75 that, as far as we can tell, no one has created before for the Bible."
• "We estimate that Mechanical Turk cut our costs by about 60% for a comparable-quality result."
• "Workers performed these HITs almost as fast as they were uploaded."

Go read the whole thing.

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