If you’re new to Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), then you’ll be faced with a new landscape. Just like any new piece of software or system, this new territory may seem unfamiliar. So, to help orient you this new world making (small amounts of) money online, here’s a glossary:
HIT - Human Intelligence Task; discrete small jobs to be completed
Dashboard - the entryway to AMT where can get a status on your work in AMT
Requester - the employers who offers the HITs
Rewards - this is an accounting of all your earnings on AMT
Submitted - completed HITs
Approved - these are HITS the Requester has approved
Rejected - these are HITS the Requester has approved and refuses to pay you
Pending - HITs completed, but not accepted or rejected yet
Returned - HITS you have returned after attempting
Abandoned - HITs that expired before you completed it or returned it
Qualification - some HITs require that Workers be pre-qualified prior them being worked on
CAPTCHA - (completely automated public turing test to computers and humans apart) term used with computer that requires human input to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Sometimes you have to enter a “CAPTCHA” word prior to accepting a HIT
Account Settings - where you control your profile and how you disburse your earnings
Amazon - The company behind all this system and the wildly successful online marketplace
The Turk or Mechanical Turk - a fake chess playing machine which was really a hoax that was on display in the late 18th century as an example of an automaton. There was a chess master inside a box beneath the chess board
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