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by jstanley 293 days ago
Thanks, and do we know if the humans are average people off the street, or unusually-intelligent people?

EDIT: OK, I see there are 3 types of humans:

"Avg. Mturker" does worst. "Stem Grad" and "Human Panel" are basically equivalent in terms of quality but differ in cost.

It's not obvious to me whether an average Mturker would be more or less clever than the average person. Mturk doesn't pay very well, so you'd think you'd have to be below average to want to do it. But potentially it attracts people of above-average intelligence who just happen to live in the third world?

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Additional caveat: some of the "avg mturker" cohort are almost certainly using LLMs to participate.