The Mechanical Turk Newbie. I haven’t been doing this long, just ‘stumbled’ upon this website whilst surfing during the week. I guess you can call me a ‘Mechanical Turk Newbie’ in a way. Why did I choose to do this? Well, lets just say, I spend enough time online, sometimes doing aimless things, so I thought, ‘what the hey?’ might as well do something and earn something while doing it. I’m not expecting to get millions here though. Come to think of it, I’m not even expecting to get hundreds of dollars, looking at the rates of most of the hits, but it helps pass my time, I guess. Plus, I guess, its also nice to know that you’re helping someone with their work or whatever they are working on. Providing, of course that the HIT providers are genuine in allocating their tasks to us, which I think is, the case most of the time. If however, you are a cynic, you can also say that this is the perfect avenue for those who are looking for ‘cheap labour’, where they post tasks given to them (as either students, researchers or employees) to work on, and we gladly do it for them at a very, very low price!. Either way you look at it, I guess…it works! As in most things, it is regulated by the most basic rule of supply and demand! Where there is a demand for something, there will be a supply for it! In any case, if you like helping, then I guess, you won’t think too much about it. It does help you pass the time, though.