Independent notes on published research about platform work and online side income

Library

Three notes, three clocks

Each entry sets out the question, the data, the reported result, and the constraints the authors placed on it.

Editorial standards

Four rules that govern every page

1. Named sources only. Every figure on this site is attributed to named researchers or a named institutional publication, with the design and the period attached. No statistic appears without a traceable source.
2. No presumption about the reader. Every page is written in the third person about research populations. No headline, sentence or graphic asserts or assumes anything about the situation, finances, occupation or intentions of the person reading it.
3. Limits travel with the figure. Where authors state that a result does not extend to a population, industry or period, that boundary is reproduced in the note rather than left for inference.
4. No accounts of individual results. This publication does not publish testimonials, customer reviews, endorsements, success stories or before-and-after accounts, in any section, and does not collect them.

Boundaries

What Side Wage is not

Set out directly, so that the edges of this work are not left to inference.

Not financial advice

Nothing here is professional, financial, investment, tax, legal, employment or career advice, and nothing here is a substitute for a qualified professional who has looked at the particulars of a situation.

Not an assessment

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Not a claim of results

No article states or implies an outcome for anyone who reads it. A measured average or median in a study population is a statement about that population and nothing else.

Not testimony

No testimonials, customer reviews, endorsements, success stories or before-and-after accounts appear anywhere on this site, and none are solicited.

Not a support service

This is a publication, not a crisis line or helpline. Correspondence is read during business hours and is not monitored continuously.

Not for minors

The site and anything associated with it are intended for readers aged 18 or over.

Questions

Answered in advance

What is published here

Editorial notes on experiments, observational studies and measurement projects concerning platform labour, task pay and online labour demand. Each note names the researchers, describes the design and sample, reports the figures as published, and records the boundaries the authors set on their own conclusions.

Whether reading costs anything

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How refunds work

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Whether consultations are available

They are not. There is no advisory service, no one-to-one guidance and no review of anyone's situation. Correspondence covers questions about published notes, corrections, and administrative matters.

Why there are no testimonials

Because an account of one person's result is evidence about one person, and this publication reports study populations. The policy is absolute: none are published, and none are collected.

What data is recorded

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Correspondence

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