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		amelius on July 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled > I wonder how others do this kind of thing. Assuming I have 100k text blurbs I want to classify of sentiment and/or emotion and want at least 95% accuracy, what are the options? Use the consensus of 3 or more annotators (or median).

wongarsu on July 14, 2022 [–]

But is paying 3x $5/h getting better results than hiring a local collage student for $15/h?

sgc on July 14, 2022 | [–]

Won't you just wind up with a collage from either source?

Answer is yes, because those $5/h workers are likely just as educated, but from a less affluent part of the world.

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