Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

ChaunceyGardiner

slade09 wrote: »

Yeah i do agree the information in the videos was very helpful and interesting.

Could anyone find those vids on youtube??

https://www.humanimprovement.org/

mrsyardbroom

I'm attempting a Greek translation study. It would be ok if the letters were clear but what on earth is a round blob supposed to be?

mrsyardbroom

Think it's supposed to be epsilon.

allison445

mrsyardbroom wrote: »

I'm attempting a Greek translation study. It would be ok if the letters were clear but what on earth is a round blob supposed to be?

I really did try with this one wanted to get as much as possible for my chosen charity but after about 10 minutes all the letters just looked like blobs and I gave up lol

ndf9876

Delta and Phi just look liked weird amorphous blobs by the time I got round to the last one, here's hoping I got 80% accuracy!

The one thing I didn't get was any kind of proof-reading exercise which I thought was part of the study (for a bonus payment) - instead I was asked about the generosity of other participants.

Hermia

allison445 wrote: »

I really did try with this one wanted to get as much as possible for my chosen charity but after about 10 minutes all the letters just looked like blobs and I gave up lol

I just gave that one up. A couple of the blobs did not bear any resemblance to the letters you could choose from. I also thought the pay seemed pretty crappy for the study. I did worry that they came up with the charity angle as a way to get people to do 45 mins of work for very little money. A lot of the studies lately seem very low paid for the amount of work or seem to be asking a lot in terms of personal details etc. I am glad that when you return the study you now have the option of explaining why.

allison445

Language and perception study #5
Just sat for 30 minutes doing this suvey to be meet with a message
Sorry, we already have our quota of females, and don't need your data. We appologize for the inconvenience.
Im not amused :mad:

Marvqn1

allison445 wrote: »

Language and perception study #5
Just sat for 30 minutes doing this suvey to be meet with a message
Sorry, we already have our quota of females, and don't need your data. We appologize for the inconvenience.
Im not amused :mad:

I have a similar error also on that study after 30 mins. I'm wondering, should I submit it or return it?

allison445

Ive just redone this and when asked my sex i put prefer not to say if they wanted specific amounts of each gender they should have done a male and female version
I see that females are now being screened out from the start
Not really my fault the required amount of females finished before I did

mikep22

allison445 wrote: »

Language and perception study #5
Just sat for 30 minutes doing this suvey to be meet with a message
Sorry, we already have our quota of females, and don't need your data. We appologize for the inconvenience.
Im not amused :mad:

I got that survey but I got screened for miss spelling the word carrott, which while is my fault, is still astonishingly pedantic.

As for that comment, that is their fault. They let you go through the process of screening and then taking the survey, they should pay up. IMHO.