Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Slinky

I'm not one of the fortunate ones to be doing these AI studies. I'm doing ones for a few pennies a lot of the time. What I have found is that a lot of the surveys, in particular the short low paying ones, can be done on a mobile even though it specifies Desktop/laptop only. I've done 8 this morning on mobile which said desktop only. I've never been rejected for completing it on the wrong device.  

The only one this morning which came up insisting I use my desktop when I started on the mobile, resulted in me walking into a glass door spilling a cup of tea over my carpet and phone as I wasn't concentrating!

elsien

Except they specifically ask you to tick a box to say that you are using a desktop and I’m not comfortable in ticking that when it’s not true. 

elsien

I have just had an AI specialised participant one which took me over an hour just to work through the instructions and complete the quiz. Not helped by some of their answers appearing to relate to a different video to the one I was watching,
Too late at night and too brain dead  now to be embarking on the next hour long session.

onemouseplace

I kow the one you mean as I did it last weekend and I'm just opened it and have got the tutorial again!  I did a couple of hours of tasks afterwards last weekend and they were interesting, but definitely required more brain power than some and I'm not really sure I have enough physics knowledge for what they want!

snowwhyte

I did this one too. It took me an hour and 45 minutes because it turns out if you clicked out of the final questions to check the guidelines it didn't remember what you'd already done. I also thought some of the instructions were inconsistent. We'll see if any of us passed and start getting tasks but I wasn't a fan of this one. 

elsien

I’ve started getting tests showing up for it. Now just working out if it’s something I really want to spend an hour on.
give me the option I’d rather do the four 15 minute video ones instead

snowwhyte

I prefer the other video/image ones too. If they want us to do the more complicated ones they should pay more. 

onemouseplace

snowwhyte said:

I prefer the other video/image ones too. If they want us to do the more complicated ones they should pay more. 

Agreed.  This one definitely felt like it should pay more.  

silvercar

I’m getting a lot of creative writing surveys at the moment. They are straightforward and take me far less time than the expected 30 minutes. Though responses are being judged and one of the criteria is time taken, so I’m multi tasking!

snowwhyte

Lots of the image studies early in the morning (7ish) that all seem to disappear after a few hours.