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julicorn

I just had this study come up:

Study about Preferences on Higher Education Concerns
Hosted by ucl.ac.uk
£0.85 • 10 minutes • £5.10/hr • 82/86

And the main instruction was in-congruent with the individual question text. So I messaged the researcher afterwards to let them know how I interpreted it. Within 5 minutes, they had replied to apologise, paid my 85p, gave me a 50p bonus, and awarded me some sort of 'gold star' (who knows what these are for) as well. I thought that was really nice of them.

Smodlet

julicorn wrote: »

I just had this study come up:

Study about Preferences on Higher Education Concerns
Hosted by ucl.ac.uk
£0.85 • 10 minutes • £5.10/hr • 82/86

And the main instruction was in-congruent with the individual question text. So I messaged the researcher afterwards to let them know how I interpreted it. Within 5 minutes, they had replied to apologise, paid my 85p, gave me a 50p bonus, and awarded me some sort of 'gold star' (who knows what these are for) as well. I thought that was really nice of them.

Well done, julicorn; you are the first person of my cyber acquaintance to be thus distinguished.

Ha! At last we know who gets the gold stars; you have to be one of them! Discrimination, it is. :rotfl:

ETA: Thanks, you two; you have cheered me up. I'm still peeved about my ailing cephalopod, though.

[Deleted User]

Now we know who gets the stars but who gets the coveted t-shirts? Certainly ain't me!

julicorn

Smodlet wrote: »

Well done, julicorn; you are the first person of my cyber acquaintance to be thus distinguished.

Ha! At last we know who gets the gold stars; you have to be one of them! Discrimination, it is. :rotfl:

You're probably right :rotfl: I can't actually find anything about those stars online, so I doubt they have any effect, but I feel a little proud nonetheless. :rotfl:

Smodlet

Once upon a time, back in the days of the old site, we all had a PA "score". It started at 100% and was reduced for too many rejections in too short a space of time, too high a % of rejections, I guess if a researcher complained about you... Believe it or not, mine stayed at 100%; they then did away with it and replaced it with these stars, as if we were all five years old. I have never had one; you are the only person I know of who has.

I vaguely recall that, if you got five stars, PA would send you a tee shirt with their name on it. Personally, I found the % score a great deal more useful... HTH.

Chrisv

https://blog.prolific.ac/feedback-stars/

Smodlet

OK, I'm paraphrasing to an extent but "Help address problems... when we aren't doing a good job"? Their t's and c's tell a very different story and just look at their performance today. Why have they not passed on our bonus money? I seriously wonder what else they are doing that is not quite cricket.

Smodlet

https://blog.prolific.ac/prolifics-participant-pool-its-present-and-its-future/

They can afford to hand out $000s in "grants" to suck new customers in... No wonder they can't afford to pay us our bonuses.

[Deleted User]

Interpretations of social interactions 2
Hosted by unimelb.edu.au
£0.80 • 9 minutes • £5.34/hr • 51/160

wibblewibble

Smodlet wrote: »

Once upon a time, back in the days of the old site, we all had a PA "score". It started at 100% and was reduced for too many rejections in too short a space of time, too high a % of rejections, I guess if a researcher complained about you... Believe it or not, mine stayed at 100%; they then did away with it and replaced it with these stars, as if we were all five years old. I have never had one; you are the only person I know of who has.

I vaguely recall that, if you got five stars, PA would send you a tee shirt with their name on it. Personally, I found the % score a great deal more useful... HTH.

I had one back on the old site - but now we're on the new one I have no idea where it's gone or even if I still have it as I can't find it anywhere.

I'm also waiting on my six squid bonus having had the same email from Tina.

What I really dislike about the new site (amongst a long list of things) is that I have had several surveys that allow me to reserve a place but when I click on the go to survey link I'm told its full or the survey has been withdrawn and I have to "return it" on PA which means I now have several "returned" in my subnissions list and I don't know if that affects my scores.