A recent blog post by the economist John J Horton observed that potential employers using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service were offering a rate of $1.38 an hour. Not only is this low pay, it is a strange figure. Why $1.38? Mr Horton, of New York’s Stern School of Business, surmises that the figure came from a seven-year-old paper he had co-authored reporting $1.38 as the median reservation wage (the level below which individuals will not accept work) in an experiment conducted on MTurk.
纽约大学斯特恩商学院(Stern School of Business)manbetx20客户端下载 学家约翰•J•霍顿(John J Horton)最近发表的一篇博客文章说，使用亚马逊(Amazon)的土耳其机器人(Mechanical Turk)服务的潜在雇主的开价是每小时1.38美元。这一薪资水平不止是低，其数字本身也很奇怪。为什么是1.38美元？霍顿猜测这一数字来自7年前他联名发表的一篇论文，该论文报告称，在土耳其机器人开展的试验中，1.38美元是保留工资的中位数。所谓保留工资，是指低于该水平个人就不会接受相关工作的工资水平。