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Mechanical Turk Experiment

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This project is for everyone who is taking part in Randy Schoenberg's Mechanical Turk experiment. We can have discussions here to help understand what works and what isn't working, and to try to improve everyone's experience in this experiment.

I would love to have feedback, and in particular, get answers to the following questions:

1. Did you find it easy or difficult to complete the project? If you experienced difficulties, what were they?

2. Did any of the people you invite to Geni actually join your tree? If not, why do you think they didn't join?

3. Was the amount of compensation sufficient? If not, what do you think it should be?

4. How could the HIT instructions be improved?

5. Did you have difficulties changing the language on Geni?

6. Did you add more than 10 profiles to your tree? If not, what would encourage you to add more?

7. Were you able to merge into the World Family Tree on Geni?

8. Would you be interested in finding a connection to notable/celebrity profiles?

9. Were you able to find help on Geni? Do you have any questions about Geni that I can help answer?

10. What would be a good way to offer a bonus?

11. If I came up with other Geni projects, would you be interested in working on them?

12. Did you find a tree match to an existing tree on Geni?

13. Did you find a match to data or a tree on MyHeritage?

14. Did you add any photos or documents?

15. Did you add birth or death dates to the profiles you entered?

16. Did you add all siblings for the profiles you entered?