Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Sapindus

I've just had a rejection from "consumer experience study". Study was an unhelpful chat bot on a shopping site, I spent some time trying to use the site as I normally would but in the end bought a pair of socks and explained why I thought the chatbot was not helpful. I thought that was the point of the study. Apparently I failed attention check and authenticity check! Anyone else done this one?

serena9

Prolific seems very glitchy at the moment; studies are not loading or lagging, especially the AI ones. Yesterday was especially bad, and now it looks like I've been rotated out. Hey ho, I'll wait for 6 weeks if I have to but I wonder if this is anything to do with the post above too.

SensibleSarah

I've had quite a lot of technical issues recently on AI ones. Seem to still be getting them for now though. Been a decent last couple of weeks in terms of earnings so I hope it keeps going at this pace. Some of the video and image comparisons have even been fun, rather than just headwrecking.

DontBringBertie

Loads of those $5 AI ones last few days. Easy enough, especially if you try and do the image ones rather than the video ones where there’s a reference image, audio and two new videos to compare.

I just try to spend no less than 30 seconds on each question, that way you only have to do a max of 30 choices in 15 mins,

serena9

I was wondering if anyone has worked out how to tell what the AI study will be like before committing. I have the same preferences as above and also time myself in a similar way. I am sad today seeing the studies I have available having been rotated out, roll on being back in the fold.

elsien

Occasionally I start one and if it’s one I really don’t want to do I just return it after the first clip. I don’t give a reason, I just go onto the Next study on the list and usually that’s something different which is okay.

It’s really only the “which is better quality” one when they are both so awful you would just have a long list of equally as bad.

Slinky

I had one this morning which was rating a conversation between a suicidal woman and a homeless man. I used the P (park) tab and made the comment that it was Disgusting, rather than listen to the audio and rate it.

I didn't bother reporting as we know nothing ever happens when you do that. I only discovered the 'P' function last week when a clip wasn't loading properly. I've used it a couple of times now when I just can't decide between the two options, and I'd rather not risk a manual review and slapped wrist message.

serena9

Good idea. I've used it once before when a clip wasn't loading; I had forgotten about it.

DontBringBertie

The audio ones are equally as easy as the image ones as they’re easy to tell apart. And if the prompt is really long you can take about a minute and pretend you were bothering to read the whole thing.

I did have a video earlier this evening which was the blurry, distorted ones where they were both terrible. Not even sure what they’re testing as the currently available AI models are 100x better already.

Slinky

Is anybody else getting a 500 error when trying to look at the studies tab on Firefox this morning? Seems OK with chrome. I'm guessing it's something to do with the PHP issues?