Lyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alex Francis wrote:
> > "Then I asked three people on Amazon Mechanical Turk to verify that
> > the tweet was on the topic. If so, I asked if the tweet seemed
> > positive, negative or neutral" [...]
> 
> Maybe we should put this on the front page? [...]

I'd be hesitant because of the use of the minimum-wage-busting
Amazon Mechanical Turk.  There's also the pay-peanuts-get-monkeys
aspect of the analysis reliablity there and that the data doesn't
seem to be provided for verification.

Interesting talking points, but not a great news item IMO.

Hope that explains,
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