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Mr.Zhou finally turns into Dr.Zhou (hooray!). For those curious minds, a draft of the dissertation can be found at PhD Dissertation. The official copy, like all other dissertation work, is archived with the Library of Congress.

I use Qualtrics to do advanced surveys that requires "drag and drop", "flow logic", etc. And then I use Amazon Mechanical Turk to recruit subjects for really cheap (I usually do $0.15/subject). This post is about how to make the two services work together.

It seems that all other existing approaches require subjects to copy a "confirmation code" here and there. But what I'll show you here is a very smooth process: Mturk workers would see the survey inside of Mturk, they work on it, submit, and get paid (see below):

看了一篇文章，“访赵小兰部长：什么是移民的美国梦”，特别认同其中的一段话：

在访谈中，赵小兰部长在谈到什么是美国梦的时候特别动情。她说她相信对每一个移民都有一个自己的美国梦，它因人而异，既不一定是所谓的成功，也不一定是金钱财富，美国梦就是每个人自己所想的东西。赵小兰认为，美国是一个高度动态的社会，一个具有无限创新精神的国度，所以每个移民不管从哪里来，在这里都有机会去实现自己的追求。

在物质生活发达的今天，买车买房已经不再是什么了不起的梦想，值得追求的美国梦，就是可以每天做自己喜欢的事情，自由的表达人生。

同想创业的朋友们共勉。