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Responsible research with crowds: pay crowdworkers at least minimum wage

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High-level guidelines for the treatment of crowdworkers.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 3
      March 2018
      107 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3190347
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