or a researcher

[GoodTaste]

Does "or a researcher" mean "or pays a researcher" here?

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Amazon created a site called Mechanical Turk in 2005 to enable the crowdsourcing of work via the internet—whether for a company that pays random Web surfers to weigh in on a new logo design or a researcher who is conducting a social science experiment.





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[Roman55]

No. It means, 'or for a researcher...'.

 

[GoodTaste]

No. It means, 'or for a researcher...'.

for a researcher who pays random Web surfers to weigh in on his new social experiment?

 

[Roman55]

No. "Amazon created a site called Mechanical Turk in 2005 to enable the crowdsourcing of work via the internet—whether for a company...or for a researcher who is conducting a social science experiment."