Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

silvercar

elsien said:

silvercar said:

Pornography use and sexual behaviour

By ntu.ac.uk

£2.00 • £8.23/hr

14 mins

349 places

Survey

In this survey we will ask about your pornography viewing and sexual attitudes and behaviours. Please note that the survey does ask about specific sexual behaviour, sexual interest, and possesses questions about child abuse and sexual interactions between family members. The survey also contains graphic pornographic images. Please consider whether this is something you want to be exposed to before taking part.

Just been offered this!

Even if someone wanted to take up the offer of free !!!!!! from prolific, would they want pornographic images on their hardware??

Report to prolific? Someone has seriously not thought this one through. 

Thanks, I did wonder if I was being a tad prudish. I've now reported.

Jolaaled

I'm finding that approvals for the studies that I've submitted are mostly now taking a lot longer. I rarely get immediate approval and for many, I'm waiting the maximum 22 days. Anyone else finding this?

BrotherUuurgh

Jolaaled said:

I'm finding that approvals for the studies that I've submitted are mostly now taking a lot longer. I rarely get immediate approval and for many, I'm waiting the maximum 22 days. Anyone else finding this?

Same. Anything under £0.50 seems to be done immediately, if not a couple of days after. Anything over £1-£2 is a long old wait. 

northwalesd

I can't say I'm finding the same. I had a study yesterday for £3.25, already approved. Several studies in excess of £1 in the last few days of Jan, again already approved.

elsien

Satisfaction Survey for Specific Smartphone Users

By In Seok Heo

£2.50 • £37.04/hr

4 mins

Except the blurb says 143 questions it which take 20 to 30 minutes. Something not quite accurate here. 

silvercar

elsien said:

Satisfaction Survey for Specific Smartphone Users

By In Seok Heo

£2.50 • £37.04/hr

4 mins

Except the blurb says 143 questions it which take 20 to 30 minutes. Something not quite accurate here. 

The average time includes those who started the survey and then returned it. In this case the wide difference between the expected time of 20-30 minutes and the average of 4 suggests that a  lot of people started the survey and then returned it. In this case I would guess that people clicked start before reading the list of compatible phones and then returned it.

JGB1955

fly-catchers said:

Do Prolific chase up any bonus that is supposed to be paid? I completed a 9 week memory app survey where they said the £9 bonus for completing the whole 9 weeks would be paid within two weeks. Two weeks was yesterday. Though I did do this survey 6 months earlier as it’s a recurring survey and that. £9 was paid promptly.

I completed that set of surveys too, and have had two emails apologising for the delay, the latest being on 31 January.

Dear participant,
as you have been informed, the bonus payment for your study was supposed to be sent out already. We apologize for the delay. Unfortunately, we are still facing some technical issues and are working on a solution. Be sure that you will be paid the bonus of 9 GBP. We aim to send it out within the next 2 weeks.
Thank you for your understanding!

CliveOfIndia

For the first time since I joined Prolific, I've had a couple of AI tasks, training an AI system.  You have to describe where on a web page the AI thing clicked.

On the main page it says it should take an hour, then on the detailed instructions when you go into the study, it says it usually takes between 30 minutes and an hour.

But there's no definite end - it just says to click the red button when you've spent the allotted time on it.  Does anyone know how accurate this needs to be - do you have to spend as near as possible exactly an hour (as noted on the initial study description)?  Or 30 minutes as the detailed instructions said between 30 minutes to an hour?  Or does it not matter?

Thanks in advance from an AI-newbie

elsien

I try to do the hour to the  nearest minute. I think I may have gone over once but can't remember if I got paid extra for it. Tbh most times once I get to the hour I've had enough anyway, but if they are asking for an hour I don't want to be kicked out as unreliable if I do less. 

A couple of times it has run out of tasks - twice it paid the full hour because it wasn't my fault and it was a fair way into the task. Once it ran out of tasks in the first few minutes - I was asked to return in then was paid just for the time I had spent on it. 

I quite like those cursor ones - much easier than comparing two conversations which I just refuse to do.

CliveOfIndia

Thanks @elsien, appreciate your advice