Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

olliebean

Willing2Learn wrote: »

Just noticed that the Prolific Assistant extension for Chrome has been updated to the new prolific.co address.

...and now the Firefox one has, too.

olliebean

Vintage67 wrote: »

Prolific specifically forbid researchers to screen participants during a survey:

https://researcher-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/articles/360010165173-Can-I-screen-participants-within-my-survey-

Can I screen participants within my survey?

No, you can only screen participants out of your survey based on criteria which are specified using Prolific's prescreening options.
By this, we mean that the full eligibility criteria for your study must be applied to your prescreening, so that all participants who are sent to your study can complete it and receive the reward. You can not simply reject participants if they do not meet the criteria you're looking for, or exit them from your survey, if the criteria wasn't applied to your prescreening.

So I'd report any researcher who asks screening questions, or includes text in the instructions like 'Only complete this survey if you....'

These questions are completely different to attention checks.

PA also say

Participants inappropriately screened out of a study should not have their submission rejected, and will require payment.

so I'd be contactin the researcher and asking for payment!

This is interesting. Fairly often I get studies that specify some requirement in the description that I don't meet; recent examples include that I should have an iPhone, or that I should be able to translate some foreign language. I've been ignoring these studies, as I don't meet the requirements. Should I instead be accepting them, and when I am unable to complete them, demanding payment anyway?

elsien

This one is different though. They asked me if I was familiar with the system, I said yes and they chucked me out. They didn't specify that I needed to be using it weekly, or I wouldn't have clicked on it.

Topiary

PWEM wrote: »

Altough it was an interesting study, it took me over 1 hour .

It says "Our statistics show that reading a single questionnaire statement and answering it will take about 6-7 seconds." Really!? :mad:

Quite a range of emotive ethical based scenarios ... am guessing they means 6-7 seconds to answer after reading each scenario.

Took me 30 mins though I was quite clinical with providing answers.

elsien

I dithered and spent a bit longer than I might otherwise have done as I didn't want to be declined for not taking it seriously enough. Think I got to about 50 minutes with the odd tea break.

Merlin's_Beard

PWEM wrote: »

Altough it was an interesting study, it took me over 1 hour .

It says "Our statistics show that reading a single questionnaire statement and answering it will take about 6-7 seconds." Really!? :mad:

I took them at their word to give my first, instinctive answer rather than overthink it, and finished in about 30....

Hope I'm not the random outlier there!

koala987

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

I took them at their word to give my first, instinctive answer rather than overthink it, and finished in about 30....

Hope I'm not the random outlier there!

No, you're not alone. I did the same and didn't overthink it and it took me around 30 minutes too.

aau1

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

I took them at their word to give my first, instinctive answer rather than overthink it, and finished in about 30....

Hope I'm not the random outlier there!

You're in good company. I took 28 mins

Willing2Learn

Fixie Repayment Study
Hosted by John Smith
£0.35 4 minutes £5.25/hr 325 places remaining

Bennettxoxo

Communication and Decision Making
Hosted by rsm.nl
£1.20 10 minutes £7.20/hr 310 places remaining