Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

mikep22

OI! PROLIFIC! No surveys since dinosaurs ruled the earth!!

fly-catchers

Joined up with Circle but they need a mobile to complete the setting up. I don't have a mobile so guess will have to continue to use PayPal. Wish these survey companies used BACs so you could just transfer the cash across. Panelbase and Onepoll do as well as a few others. So much easier..

Merlin's_Beard

Hmm...

So, I've had a study rejected. Not because I failed a prescreening question, or completed too fast, or showed in any other way that I wasn't paying attention or completed it incorrectly.

But because "Unfortunately, you showed really extreme responses which don't allow me to use the responses for the analysis."

Is "I don't like your data" a reasonable reason to reject, or could I raise that as a query with Prolific?

Kavor

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

Hmm...

So, I've had a study rejected. Not because I failed a prescreening question, or completed too fast, or showed in any other way that I wasn't paying attention or completed it incorrectly.

But because "Unfortunately, you showed really extreme responses which don't allow me to use the responses for the analysis."

Is "I don't like your data" a reasonable reason to reject, or could I raise that as a query with Prolific?

I'd raise it with Prolific to see what they say. Personally i'd be a little hacked off if i'd spent time on a study and was told that my responses were outside of their expected parameters.

mikep22

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

Hmm...

So, I've had a study rejected. Not because I failed a prescreening question, or completed too fast, or showed in any other way that I wasn't paying attention or completed it incorrectly.

But because "Unfortunately, you showed really extreme responses which don't allow me to use the responses for the analysis."

Is "I don't like your data" a reasonable reason to reject, or could I raise that as a query with Prolific?

Eh?

Thats their fault. I agree. Complain to Prolific. "Not liking your answers" is not grounds for rejection.

Brookside88

Cash out day and I have £12.57 still pending. Humph

Brookside88

mikep22 wrote: »

Eh?

Thats their fault. I agree. Complain to Prolific. "Not liking your answers" is not grounds for rejection.

Just to play devils advocate. Is it possible that they selected respondents based on preselection questions e.g.. someone who said they were middle of the road politically but then gave answers to suggest they were far left or right?

Not saying this is the case but perhaps it's a possibility

I would definitely raise it with prolific though

wibblewibble

This auto refresh of the studies page thing is all well and good apart from the fact that a lot of the time when it does that it either logs me out or gives a 500 error message which doesn't show up on the tab heading and I only know its done it when I open the page and spot it meaning that if by some miracle a study had come in for me I didn't know about it and missed it. Thats even after me clearing all prolific cookies first thing in the morning before I log in.

Smodlet

mikep22 wrote: »

Eh?

Thats their fault. I agree. Complain to Prolific. "Not liking your answers" is not grounds for rejection.

I agree, that is appalling. I thought the whole point of studies was to find out what people think whatever their views. We are exhorted to be honest. PA need to know about this, imho. If researchers cannot cope with the truth they are in the wrong job.

Brookside88

Anyone done or doing the social game study. What's the game like as I'm at work and don't want to be doing anything dodgy :rotfl: