Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

twiglet98

mikep22 wrote: »

Only ever be honest with your prescreeners. People are trying to get data for studies - for real life things like masters and doctorates (I am doing one myself right now). Youd be mortified to spend your own money only for people to effectively cheat you.
Im a big believer that people doing research want others from all walks of life, it might be quiet right now (it happens) but it will pick up, and it tends to be ripe between March-June.
Always remember this is not your standard survey site...if you want one of those then Swagbucks, GlobalTestMarket et al are you places to visit.

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to come back and thank you for this - no, I absolutely would not lie on any of the prescreening questions, I'm not pretending to be something I'm not and if I'm going to answer it will be true, but I did think about deleting one or two of my answers as some questions seemed so intensely personal. However, I left everything as it was, I haven't added to the prescreening that I did in those first few days but I'm delighted that in the last two weeks surveys are coming in more frequently, I'm really enjoying them and the next confirmed one will take me to just over £10!

My usual laptop doesn't have Chrome so I don't get pop-up alerts, just email notifications, so I have been too late for quite a few. I must get into the habit of keeping a tab open and checking it whenever I'm at the computer. And I'll do some more prescreening questions now I know I'm in the system, so to speak.

I've done YouGov surveys for well over 10 years but I didn't like GTM or Swagbucks. PA is pleasing for now and I wish the very best to all researchers and students putting the surveys together - good luck with your own studies too.

riotlady

Is there a set time they normally post surveys, e.g. 9-5? I've just been keeping a tab open and refreshing it periodically but just realised there might not be much point at night.

Smodlet

mikep22 wrote: »

Filth!!

I didn't get one today, one I tell you!!

Clearly there is something fundamentally wrong with the universe. :eek:

Smodlet

Ode to Those in the Desert
(you can try singing it to the tune of "Bring me Sunshine" if you like. Good luck with that )

Bring me studies every day,
Don't reject me, please just pay
Every study we do brings us little bits of dosh
But rejections make me want to damn well bloody squ-ash
Those researchers who don't pay
Until three weeks and a day
Twenty-two days is too long to wait for 50p
You get grants for research so why do you take the pee-hee?
Give me dosh, bring me studies, don't take lo-ong.

AprilLady

riotlady wrote: »

Is there a set time they normally post surveys, e.g. 9-5? I've just been keeping a tab open and refreshing it periodically but just realised there might not be much point at night.

I think they come at all times of the day or night - just depends when the researchers get round to putting them up.

ElefantEd

Don't forget that the surveyers may be located anywhere in the world, so studies could be posted in the middle of the UK night simply because that's normal hours for them.

mikep22

ElefantEd wrote: »

Don't forget that the surveyers may be located anywhere in the world, so studies could be posted in the middle of the UK night simply because that's normal hours for them.

Ive had some of my most lucrative ones when checking at 4am (you know what its like, one of those nights you struggle to sleep and get a cuppa...)

Mrs_Soup

riotlady wrote: »

Is there a set time they normally post surveys, e.g. 9-5? I've just been keeping a tab open and refreshing it periodically but just realised there might not be much point at night.

I have done surveys in the middle of the night - it does happen as some researchers are overseas so their times are different. There is obviously much less then though. Also there are sometimes surveys at weekends but again much less than during the week. We are starting the busy time now so maybe worth keeping an eye on.

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