Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

BookmobileBadGirl

Wasn’t expecting much today but have so far completed about a fivers worth of surveys

WeAreGhosts

Fun consumer trivia and ad rating study
Hosted by Farhana Tabassum
£6.00
45 minutes
£8.00/hr
278 places remaining

MissPop

Just had to dismiss a £9 study... Excuse me while I quietly weep in the corner...

Willing2Learn

University study on human behaviour V5
Hosted by imperial.ac.uk
£0.20 2 minutes £6.00/hr 215 places remaining

tgon

I seem to have 10 completed surveys all with valid completion codes but wrongly stuck in “returned” rather than “awaiting review”. Anyone else had this problem?

julicorn

greent wrote: »

Assessing a novel cognitive task in the general population 01
Hosted by Cambridge Cognition
£1.25
15 minutes
£5.00/hr
81 places remaining

Need to be using an ipad to complete it - so I had to pass

Bit late, but you didn't miss anything - this one was torture. Took an average of 24 minutes to complete as well! I've complained, first to the researcher and now to Prolific, because I'm petty like that (but honestly, £1.50 for 24 minutes work and basically installing an app is not ok, and I can't get researcher get away with stuff like that.)

gbhxu

julicorn wrote: »

Bit late, but you didn't miss anything - this one was torture. Took an average of 24 minutes to complete as well! I've complained, first to the researcher and now to Prolific, because I'm petty like that (but honestly, £1.50 for 24 minutes work and basically installing an app is not ok, and I can't get researcher get away with stuff like that.)

This was my complaint a few weeks back regarding poll/research companies in general.

All poll/research companies should be subject to the National Minimum Wage.

julicorn

gbhxu wrote: »

This was my complaint a few weeks back regarding poll/research companies in general.

All poll/research companies should be subject to the National Minimum Wage.

If they don't employ you, they don't need to pay you minimum wage. But they shouldn't lure you in by understating completion time.

loukas2993

I agree, however, Prolific have always been refreshingly forthcoming and upfront about completion times and pay rates IMO. Sorry to hear you had such a frustrating experience.

julicorn

loukas2993 wrote: »

I agree, however, Prolific have always been refreshingly forthcoming and upfront about completion times and pay rates IMO. Sorry to hear you had such a frustrating experience.

Oh, I have no doubt they will sort it out. I've had this happen only twice before (out of 200 studies, I should add), and both times bonus payments were issued to make up for the difference.

Edited to add: Not just to me, but to all participants in those studies.