Many Turkers have made user mistakes on surveys-- not filling out surveys, not noticing instructions. This is due, in large part, to UI issues on our part, including:
- Text that is too small, or doesn't have enough contrast with the background. In particular, I have received numerous complaints that text boxes are not visible (on many computers, they look like a white box on white background), and people don't know where to type, or even that they are expected to type something.
- Text input appears very similar to text instructions.
- Text boxes are small and narrow, and it's not possible to create an 'essay box' type input that allows for the kinds of longer responses we may be interested in.
- Contrast is not consistent. People ignore text boxes because radio buttons are too high-contrast, but text boxes are too low contrast.
Many Turkers have made user mistakes on surveys-- not filling out surveys, not noticing instructions. This is due, in large part, to UI issues on our part, including: