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Some Americans are willing to work for much less than people from other countries, according to the results of an online experiment conducted by Newsweek.

The magazine used Mechanical Turk, a website run by Amazon.com that acts as a marketplace for freelance work. As Newsweek described their method:

[W]e posted simple, hourlong jobs (listening to audio recordings and counting instances of a specific keyword) and continually lowered our offer until we found the absolute bottom price that multiple people would accept, and then complete the task.

To read more about this story, go to Yahoo News