Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

elljay

Topiary said:

elljay said:

In the section at the end where Prolific asks if everything was ok I put no and ticked the box where it asked if I'd been asked for personal info.  But apparently postcodes are allowed as they're not personally identifiable enough.

Easy enough to insert a random postcode. Trust the researcher revises the 90 pence payment took me a good 30mins+ 

I'd prefer be honest with it if I have to do it anyway as it's likely the researcher needs that info for demographic reasons.  However most ask about region or even county rather than exact postcode - so few people live here.  That said, I've found it often difficult to be totally honest with surveys anyway as the questions are either loaded, have 2 questions in one or something similar. Unsure whether it's poor questionnaire design or just intended to fool me!  I'm puzzled too why some ask whether you've done the survey honestly.  Has anyone tried saying no to that one?!

Value

I got a response from Prolific. It says "Unfortunately, it looks like the researcher has underestimated their study's completion time, and it has fallen below the minimum payment rate that we ask all researchers to adhere to.
As a result, we will now contact the researcher and ask them to award bonus payments to all valid submissions. We have also placed a temporary ban on the researcher's account - this ban will become permanent if the researcher refuses to comply with our request.
We have also further explained to the researcher that they are not allowed to ask participants for personally identifiable information such as postcode. As above, failure to acknowledge this and refrain from doing so in the future will result in a permanent ban from the platform."

So they shouldn't ask for postcodes and it was paying less than it should have. Will wait to see if the researcher pays up or whether they just accept the ban.

olliebean

I got the same response from Prolific. No response from the researcher yet, although they have paid the 90p originally offered.

elljay

Thank you too those who took this up with Prolific, very grateful.

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elsien

The short or long game.
in two parts £2.50 for each. Stopped working at the practice page. Just wondering if anyone else has had it or had any problems? 

elsien

elljay said:

Topiary said:

elljay said:

In the section at the end where Prolific asks if everything was ok I put no and ticked the box where it asked if I'd been asked for personal info.  But apparently postcodes are allowed as they're not personally identifiable enough.

Easy enough to insert a random postcode. Trust the researcher revises the 90 pence payment took me a good 30mins+ 

I'd prefer be honest with it if I have to do it anyway as it's likely the researcher needs that info for demographic reasons.  However most ask about region or even county rather than exact postcode - so few people live here.  That said, I've found it often difficult to be totally honest with surveys anyway as the questions are either loaded, have 2 questions in one or something similar. Unsure whether it's poor questionnaire design or just intended to fool me!  I'm puzzled too why some ask whether you've done the survey honestly.  Has anyone tried saying no to that one?!

They quite often say it won't affect the payment. I think it's because people want their data to be accurate and sometimes you do get distracted part way through for whatever reason.

ChaunceyGardiner

elsien said:

The short or long game.
in two parts £2.50 for each. Stopped working at the practice page. Just wondering if anyone else has had it or had any problems? 

I'm having the same problem. It's running *incredibly* slowly. I'm still trying to decide what to do...

olliebean

CheckDigit said:

How is COVID-19 affecting our social world?

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£1.6313 minutes £7.53/hr 10 places remaining

Another one that takes longer than advertised (although in this case I think it's because they're on an extremely slow server), and asks for your postcode at the end. Moreover, it wouldn't accept my postcode and I spent more frustrating minutes trying to work out what response would allow me to complete the survey. (It had to be a number between 1000 and 10000.)

CheckDigit

ChaunceyGardiner said:

elsien said:

The short or long game.
in two parts £2.50 for each. Stopped working at the practice page. Just wondering if anyone else has had it or had any problems? 

I'm having the same problem. It's running *incredibly* slowly. I'm still trying to decide what to do...

I am having the same problem - I think it is a problem with Qualtrics as I got the same error code for the other survey also.