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.
紐約大學斯特恩商學院(Stern School of Business)經濟學家約翰?J?霍頓(John J Horton)最近發表的一篇博客文章說,使用亞馬遜(Amazon)的土耳其機器人(Mechanical Turk)服務的潛在雇主的開價是每小時1.38美元。這一薪資水平不止是低,其數字本身也很奇怪。為什么是1.38美元?霍頓猜測這一數字來自7年前他聯名發表的一篇論文,該論文報告稱,在土耳其機器人開展的試驗中,1.38美元是保留工資的中位數。所謂保留工資,是指低于該水平個人就不會接受相關工作的工資水平。