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Post by Editor on Aug 2, 2017 15:40:24 GMT -5
Hi All, I'm just wondering about average quality scores. Mine seem so random. I've received a 2 and a 5 for work that seems to me to be the same quality. There doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency, so I don't feel like I'm really improving, which is frustrating. I'm actually hoping that others feel the same so that I can stop beating myself up for all the 3s I receive.  If you have improved and now get consistently high scores, do you have any helpful tricks? Thanks so much! |
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Post by Editor35823495 on Aug 10, 2017 1:38:31 GMT -5
Yea, don't put too much stock into. You will always get wildly varied scores. I've gotten 5's on papers that I admittedly did a rushed job on and 1's on papers that I actually tried to do well on. Now I just aim to do a decent but not great job.
The point of the quality score is not to help you, it is to help AJE. In fact, it hurts you.
You see, they want you to attempt to get a high quality score because it means less work for their salaried employees. They entice you to try harder by offering higher pay for people who consistently get 5's. But you have to spend at least twice as long to get 5's. So you are doing double the work for 15% higher pay. Who wins? AJE does. And you lose.
Also, as far as I understand it, AJE tries not to let many people reach the 'preferred level status' or whatever they call it. So if you are getting close, they'll hit you with a bunch of 3's to keep from having to pay you more.
My strategy has always been do the minimum level job I can do while still getting sent more papers. I force AJE to use their salaried employees to clean up the final papers and take my cut for doing a quick once over. I'm well over $50/hr at this method. As long as AJE takes advantage of both vulnerable grad students as editors and dreaming researchers with unpublishable work as victims - i mean customers - then I don't feel bad about taking advantage of AJE.
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Post by Editor on Aug 11, 2017 17:22:27 GMT -5
Thank you. That helps a lot. I do feel like I end up putting in way too much time and then am seriously disappointed by the quality score I receive. Occasionally, they do make the paper much better. Especially on papers that were just awful to get through initially. So, I give them credit for making those better, but sometimes the quality editors seem to replace words or change the sentence structure for no apparent reason. I've even received a low score on a paper where the quality editor didn't change anything. It is very confusing. I don't really care about the pay increase. It isn't that much. But, the low scores don't make me want to do better, they make me want to give up. I have to keep giving myself pep talks to make it through, "you are smart, you are smart, you are good enough". But, at least I don't have to go into an office.  Thanks again! |
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Post by Editor35823495 on Aug 12, 2017 11:01:58 GMT -5
Haha, no problem, happy to help.
My pep talks go like this: "wow, these people are paying me $60/hr to run spell check and fix singular/plural agreement errors. Cha-ching!"
Seriously, the only attention I pay to quality score is making sure it doesn't drop too low for me to not get more papers. Out of at least a couple hundred papers I've done, I've opened probably a half dozen of the corrected versions to see what the salaried editor did. It just doesn't interest me. If they are going to run such a piss poor company, then I'll happily take advantage of their system and keep milking this cash cow. If they wanted to do things right then they'd pay us editors an actual wage, make us employees and weed out the poor performers. Until then, it's all aboard the gravy train!
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Post by QualityControlThis on Aug 29, 2017 22:21:12 GMT -5
I find the quality score extremely frustrating. For a while I was consistently getting 3's and 4's. For the past month or two I've only been getting 2's with the very occasional score. Nothing had changed with my editing style. Recently I tried only fixing misspelled words and singular/plural agreement errors, but that hasn't helped either. I've looked in several of the QCE papers and they haven't changed much. I'm starting to worry that I won't get sent anymore assignments. When do they start to cut you off?
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Post by EditorGuest on Aug 31, 2017 7:42:01 GMT -5
I've been getting a lot of 2's suddenly, also. The only explanation I can come up with is that they have a new QCE.
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Post by kc on Feb 1, 2018 10:29:10 GMT -5
Hi all! Looks like I am a little bit late to the game here, but I just started with AJE. I submitted my first paper yesterday, and I am eagerly awaiting my score. I did a very thorough job, but of course I am still paranoid that I will receive an arbitrarily low score. Has anyone stopped receiving papers to edit due to low scores? If so, how many low scores did you receive before getting the boot? Do they officially "fire" you? Or do they just stop making work available? I just want to know what to look out for and how stressed I should be - I'm happy to have finally found a flexible source of income! Thanks!! |
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Post by undercovereditor on May 1, 2018 6:14:09 GMT -5
In my experience, all they care about is that you send in papers on time. Quality is optional.
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Post by Isacgaw on Jan 24, 2022 18:32:13 GMT -5
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Post by Isacgaw on Jan 24, 2022 18:32:59 GMT -5
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Post by Isacgaw on Jan 24, 2022 18:34:08 GMT -5
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Post by Isacgaw on Feb 25, 2022 9:28:58 GMT -5
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Post by Isacgaw on Feb 25, 2022 9:34:43 GMT -5
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If you have improved and now get consistently high scores, do you have any helpful tricks? Thanks so much!
Thanks again!
