The impact of task description linguistic style on task performance: a text mining of crowdsourcing contests

Purpose Existing studies on the relationship between task description and task performance are insufficient, with many studies considering description length rather than content to measure quality or only evaluating a single aspect of task performance. To address this gap, this study analyzes the linguistic styles of task descriptions from 2,545 tasks on the Taskcn.com crowdsourcing platform. Design/methodology/approach An empirical analysis was...