Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

elsien

Is prolific down - just finished a work simulation zoom thing and all I'm getting for prolific now is a blank screen with nothing loading? 

ETA - ignore me. It's back again. 

Nebulous2

I've just started doing surveys - signed up about a week ago and all has been well, but it has been very laggy today, with occasional pages failing to load completely. Is that common? 

elsien

No, it’s not usual although they have had one or two problems of late. It’s normally better than that.

olliebean

I've just had a new "question" show up in the Work section of the About Me pages: "Share your LinkedIn profile". Never mind that I don't have a LinkedIn profile, and there's no option for that - just a text field to share your profile in - suppose I don't want to share my LinkedIn profile? Presumably it would be shared with any researchers who wanted it, otherwise I don't really see the point of the question. Seems like too much personal information to me.

Anyway, since I don't have one, I just put "n/a" in the box.

silvercar

olliebean said:

I've just had a new "question" show up in the Work section of the About Me pages: "Share your LinkedIn profile". Never mind that I don't have a LinkedIn profile, and there's no option for that - just a text field to share your profile in - suppose I don't want to share my LinkedIn profile? Presumably it would be shared with any researchers who wanted it, otherwise I don't really see the point of the question. Seems like too much personal information to me.

Anyway, since I don't have one, I just put "n/a" in the box.

I only completed that box to avoid the "about me" request - not that it seems to disappear these last few days. I wrote 'I don't have an account of this type'

HampshireH

Got a survey this evening which links straight to Microsoft forms and therefore I have to login with my email address. It won't accept a personal account and requests a work or school login.

This seems unusual for prolific and I've had to cancel my participation. Shame because it was £3.75 for a minute (allegedly) with 412 places left

silvercar

HampshireH said:

Got a survey this evening which links straight to Microsoft forms and therefore I have to login with my email address. It won't accept a personal account and requests a work or school login.

This seems unusual for prolific and I've had to cancel my participation. Shame because it was £3.75 for a minute (allegedly) with 412 places left

Had the same. I suspect the alleged minute is because everyone is returning the survey after wasting a minute on it.

Nebulous2

HampshireH said:

Got a survey this evening which links straight to Microsoft forms and therefore I have to login with my email address. It won't accept a personal account and requests a work or school login.

This seems unusual for prolific and I've had to cancel my participation. Shame because it was £3.75 for a minute (allegedly) with 412 places left

Glad it's not just me. I got the same. I do have a work profile as well as a personal one, but I'm not allowed to use it for anything but work use. 

elsien

Me too I have work and personal, but I decided I wasn’t going go there. Reported as breaking prolifics rules against sharing of personal information.

booklover

I got this too. Disappointing, as the pay was good for a minute's work! Very strange indeed Any updates from the researcher? I contacted them, but no response as yet.