Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

olliebean

UK Social Media 45-64

Hosted by Lily Maier

£0.58 10 minutes £3.44/hr 1 place remaining

Another underpayer; the description said 7-10 minutes. At £5/hour, 7 minutes, rounded down, comes to £0.58, so it was already barely enough to cover the minimum time. But then the first page of the survey said 10-15 minutes, so I returned it. I notice that if you return a survey unfinished, Prolific now gives you the option to flag it as underpaying - I presume in response to the increasing numbers of surveys that have been doing so recently.

allison445

Risk perception and the effect of communications about COVID-19 (September 2020)

Hosted by cam.ac.uk

£2.79 34 minutes £4.86/hr 33 places remaining

CheckDigit

How well do you know this country?

Hosted by psychologie.uzh.ch

£0.353 minutes £6.97/hr 45 places remaining

CheckDigit

Personal Creativity Profile

Hosted by Jennifer Haase

£2.2520 minutes £6.46/hr 66 places remaining

Trina90

CheckDigit said:

Personal Creativity Profile

Hosted by Jennifer Haase

£2.2520 minutes £6.46/hr 66 places remaining

Glad to have perservered and finished this one! It kept crashing and I kept having to refresh. Seemed like lots of people were returning it as the number of spaces kept going up again.

olliebean

A survey on responses to social media postings of Homefeel

Hosted by Xiaowei Wang

£0.85 13 minutes £3.84/hr 0 places remaining

Just had a message from the researcher: "Could you return your submission? the content of the tweet is understood incorrectly. Otherwise, I will reject it. thanks."

I don't understand what I'm supposed to have not understood. The survey was asking my opinions about a tweet; did I not have the opinions they wanted? Not cause for rejection, surely, and this would seem like they're selectively accepting responses to get the results they want. The only other thing I can think of is a question at the end where they asked what I thought the survey was about, maybe I made an incorrect guess, but again, surely not cause for rejection?

DiamondLil

I'd return it with the reason "under paying".

CheckDigit

olliebean said:

A survey on responses to social media postings of Homefeel

Hosted by Xiaowei Wang

£0.85 13 minutes £3.84/hr 0 places remaining

Just had a message from the researcher: "Could you return your submission? the content of the tweet is understood incorrectly. Otherwise, I will reject it. thanks."

I don't understand what I'm supposed to have not understood. The survey was asking my opinions about a tweet; did I not have the opinions they wanted? Not cause for rejection, surely, and this would seem like they're selectively accepting responses to get the results they want. The only other thing I can think of is a question at the end where they asked what I thought the survey was about, maybe I made an incorrect guess, but again, surely not cause for rejection?

I had something similar recently. Unfortunately, prolific don't seem very interested in dealing with issues raised by participants anymore.

olliebean

DiamondLil said:

I'd return it with the reason "under paying".

In fact, for the time it took me to do it, it wasn't under paying.
I've replied to their message asking for further explanation of why my submission was unacceptable.

olliebean

I'm still exchanging messages with the researcher about this, but essentially it does seem to be because my answers didn't fit the desired/expected pattern. They showed me a tweet advertising something that I am not remotely interested in, I gave my authentic responses to it, and they don't want my submission because they were expecting responses indicating a degree of interest that I did not have.