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Hara and colleagues: effective hourly pay on Mechanical Turk
How a CHI 2018 analysis treated unpaid search time and what the earnings distribution can and cannot say.
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Cue Ledger
An editorial part book on how research measures side income and platform work
Named sources, visible method limits, and no presupposition about a reader’s situation — reading notes, not instructions.
What is filed
Three reading parts
Cue Ledger archives how institutes and peer-reviewed studies count complementary earnings and digitally mediated work. The desk does not publish income guides, testimonials or outcome claims.
Library
Recent parts
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Multiple jobholding: what household surveys count as second work
Definitions, reference weeks and coverage limits when official statistics track people with more than one job.
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Electronically mediated employment in US contingency measures
How the Contingent Worker Supplement framed app- and website-mediated work and where the instrument still struggles.
Standards
Editorial criteria
- No presupposition about the reader. Cue Ledger does not claim or imply knowledge of anyone’s personal, labor or financial situation.
- Named source or no claim. Figures and patterns are attributed to identifiable studies or statistical programs.
- Method limits in the same note. Sample, definition and coverage caveats sit beside the finding.
- No outcome promise. Content is not described as a method, system or protocol that produces income or employment.