Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

olliebean

Just had an email inviting me to a survey "Stop and Search Law and Black Men". On clicking, the description specified that participants should be black men, and since I am white and identified as such in my Prolific profile, it left me scratching my head as to why I'd been invited to it. Not the first time I've had a study pop up that the description revealed I wasn't eligible for, but the first time I've been explicitly invited to one by email. I think some researchers aren't filling in their eligibility requirements correctly.

Smodlet

I think half the researchers who use Prolific know less about their software than we do, tbh. Some of them are incorrigible.

PWEM

olliebean wrote: »

Yes, I did the male equivalent one. Annoyingly, the first page of the survey stated the payment would be £2.50 (and specified £6/hour), although the description was as above (£2.20, £5.28/hr), and indeed that's how much I got for it.

I noticed that too in the female version, but I thought we were getting £2.20 after Prolific's commission.
Anyway got paid straight away.

elsien

Just had a reply to my query about the Paris survey one we were turfed out of:

The researcher was attempting to screen for individuals who were not weekly users of the Paris transit system, and did so by targeting individuals who are not currently residing in France. This does not quite violate our screening policies, because participants not residing in France should not be using the transit system on a weekly basis. However, there was some confusion in the wording used by the researcher at the beginning of the study, so it was not very clear to participants that the screening question was about weekly usage (as opposed to ever having used the Paris transit system).

We apologise that you have not receive the reward for this study, but we have "Returned" your rejected submission so your Prolific reputation has not been penalised in any way. We have also advised them on a better approach for future studies.

Ivana_B_Rich

Online news and attitudes Prolific 200
Hosted by sauder.ubc.ca
£3.50 30 minutes £7.00/hr 134 places remaining

ndf9876

British Politics Survey
Hosted by Jonathan Slapin
£1.5010 minutes £9.00/hr 16 places remaining

slade09

Responses to messages about scientific issues
Hosted by deakin.edu.au
£0.8410 minutes £5.04/hr 1293 places remaining

ndf9876

A survey of attitudes and behaviour IV - MF
Hosted by city.ac.uk
£2.5020 minutes £7.50/hr 39 places remaining

mikep22

A survey of attitudes and behaviour IV - MS
Hosted by city.ac.uk
£2.5020 minutes £7.50/hr 49 places remaining

ndf9876

PENNY_survey Final
Hosted by Floriana Nappini
£1.2510 minutes £7.50/hr 3945 places remaining

There is also promise of a "bonus payment" but I didn't get any notification of this; maybe I am not enough of a philanthropist!