Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

mikep22

stormbreaker wrote: »

Yes. The other one I queried was confirmed by several on here too.

Its weird as in 3 years Ive never experienced this. You would think Prolific would hold the money in some kind of 'store' until the researcher confirms its OK, then the money is released - which in turn would mean the money paid would be correct...

loukas2993

mikep22 wrote: »

Its weird as in 3 years Ive never experienced this. You would think Prolific would hold the money in some kind of 'store' until the researcher confirms its OK, then the money is released - which in turn would mean the money paid would be correct...

Likewise, I've never received any issue with payment. And the few times I've had issues, they've been well resolved. Three years though!? Do you feel the longer you've been a member and the more submissions you receive, the more studies you are exposed to?

mikep22

loukas2993 wrote: »

Likewise, I've never received any issue with payment. And the few times I've had issues, they've been well resolved. Three years though!? Do you feel the longer you've been a member and the more submissions you receive, the more studies you are exposed to?

Nope, I am getting less studies year on year.

I have 1,060 submissions with £1,289 made. Others have more but the amount per survey seems fairly consistent.

mikep22

Workplace experience survey
Hosted by Timothy Kundro
£3.20 12 minutes £15.98/hr 221 places remaining

£3.20 for 12 minutes? Yes please!

Mrs_Soup

mikep22 wrote: »

Nope, I am getting less studies year on year.

I have 1,060 submissions with £1,289 made. Others have more but the amount per survey seems fairly consistent.

I'm in my third year and it is definitely a lot less now. It was absolutely manic this time 2017, sometimes up to 10 studies a day. I think it is a combo of more respondents on the database so surveys more shared out plus you get more studies if you are new as researchers can select if they want people who have not done too many.

mikep22

Mrs_Soup wrote: »

I'm in my third year and it is definitely a lot less now. It was absolutely manic this time 2017, sometimes up to 10 studies a day. I think it is a combo of more respondents on the database so surveys more shared out plus you get more studies if you are new as researchers can select if they want people who have not done too many.

I remember that summer. Those were some good times.....

Im not so sure about what impact the number of studies people have done has. I would imagine there would be a similar number of them available and more people to do them, so we are going to get less naturally.

Willing2Learn

mikep22 wrote: »

It works enough for it to be a worthwhile addition. It does too frequently get the error message, though it does also prompt me to check the main tab, which can also have errors.

Sometimes it will come up with a survey before the main tab, which can be useful.

I dont remove and reinstall though and tbh it works fine for me.

I have just realised that I do not have to uninstall/reinstall monthly. The problem was that I was not updating chrome regularly as I just leave chrome running 24/7. The PC is never switched off and this stops Chrome from auto-updating. That in turn stopped the Prolific Assistant from working correctly. I have just updated Chrome and Prolific Assistant started working again lol (as it was not working today). I will close and reopen Chrome daily from now on!!

Willing2Learn

Problem Solving Study with bonus payment up to 1.5 GBP
Hosted by Behavioral Decision Research Lab
£0.50 6 minutes £5.00/hr 1134 places remaining

In this study, you will be asked to try and solve a series of short problems involving simple calculations.

The study should take about 6-10 minutes to complete.

You can earn a bonus payment of up to 1.5 GBP, as will be explained in the instructions.

Pedantic alert: I believe they have spelt behavioural incorrectly lol

mikep22

Willing2Learn wrote: »

I have just realised that I do not have to uninstall/reinstall monthly. The problem was that I was not updating chrome regularly as I just leave chrome running 24/7. The PC is never switched off and this stops Chrome from auto-updating. That in turn stopped the Prolific Assistant from working correctly. I have just updated Chrome and Prolific Assistant started working again lol (as it was not working today). I will close and reopen Chrome daily from now on!!

I turn off my machine overnight so that would have the same impact. Saving energy etc.

That filthy £3.20 survey has paid out already - yummy. :T

2013yearofthehouse

mikep22 wrote: »

Nope, I am getting less studies year on year.

I have 1,060 submissions with £1,289 made. Others have more but the amount per survey seems fairly consistent.

Mrs_Soup wrote: »

I'm in my third year and it is definitely a lot less now. It was absolutely manic this time 2017, sometimes up to 10 studies a day. I think it is a combo of more respondents on the database so surveys more shared out plus you get more studies if you are new as researchers can select if they want people who have not done too many.

I haven’t had a decrease over the years.....mine just seems to ebb and flow instead. I joined in March 2016 and yesterday I had 12 studies and today I’ve had 6 already. There have been several weeks (over all 3 years) when I’ve had less than 10 (in total) all week though, even when I’ve been checking every day.

I still find I can make around the same amount of money in a month (if I check the site often enough) to most other months throughout the years.

Just looking through a few pages on my history and I can see that I did 24 studies in 1 day a few months back and made around £40 in 2 days! That was after I had been ill for a bit though and not checked the site in over 2 weeks. That is something I’ve noticed.....if I’m busy/ill and don’t check the site for a couple weeks then I get 10-20 per day for a while after that. So the ebb and flow is partly down to them (providing more or less studies) and partly down to me (checking the site more or less).

Perhaps, for some studies at least, it’s not that they are limited to newly joined people, but just limited to people who haven’t done as many studies recently.