Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

allison445

A study about employees' reactions to corporate actions

Hosted by Flore Bridoux

£0.70 4 minutes £8.49/hr 92 places remaining

littlegreenant

Testing predictions regarding limits of empathy based on the modular mind model of evolutionary psychology

Hosted by nyu.edu

£1.88 9 minutes £12.00/hr 33 places remaining

Trina90

Did anyone do the Rare Animals studies, 2 split across 2 days? £15 altogether! And the whole thing only took up to 1.5 hours. Paid the first 1 within a day too. Makes a change from the short 20p studies I keep getting!

yupiteru

onthebench said:

Malti said:

not had a prolific survey now in over a week  -very disappointed but I supposed this happens.

I was reading the Prolific blog which does provide a clue as to why this happens. Basically they seem to offer more surveys to more "naive" (in the sense of not so experienced at taking surveys) people who haven't been active at completing surveys recently.

"When it comes to distributing studies evenly, our primary tool is something called adaptive rate limiting. In essence, when the number of active participants is high relative to the number of study places available, we give priority access to participants who've spent less time taking studies recently. When studies are filling particularly slowly, we then loosen the limits and let our more 'prolific' 😜 survey takers work their magic.

This mechanism gives us several parameters we can tweak in order to distribute studies more fairly and restrict the number of "professional survey takers" on the platform. By increasing the limit, we reduce the rate at which a participant becomes non-naive, but the catch is that this accordingly slows down data collection."

This must be what I am experiencing, I have been a Prolific member for 2 years and have not seen a study for 9 days now.  Slowest it's ever been, just my luck.

olliebean

Trina90 said:

Did anyone do the Rare Animals studies, 2 split across 2 days? £15 altogether! And the whole thing only took up to 1.5 hours. Paid the first 1 within a day too. Makes a change from the short 20p studies I keep getting!

I didn't see those, but I did get a different series of 7 studies over 3 days - mostly reaction tests and similar, but short enough not to get as mind-numbing as those can sometimes - that added up to around 1-1.5 hours, and were worth a total of £18. It's been a good week.

Malti

Like onthebench says I've only had 2 x 20p surveys since 13th October. Had nothing else. Only joined in lockdown and prolific started fantastically for me but has dropped off a cliff now

Ivana_B_Rich

Questions about your work

Hosted by uclouvain.be

£1.2010 minutes £6.83/hr 155 places remaining


It's been quiet for me too recently. I suppose with all the disruption in the universities there will be much less research taking place. I'm sure that as with everything else there's an amount of adaptation and uncertainty that has to be worked through.

olliebean

Testing how well you can control your attention 3

Hosted by Adam Aron

£9.85 116 minutes £5.09/hr 1 place remaining

I took a pass on this one. At 9:40pm, I'm definitely not up for testing my attention control for nearly 2 hours.

allison445

4th follow up survey - COVID-19 and Careers

Hosted by kcl.ac.uk

£1.00 10 minutes £6.00/hr 173 places remaining

littlegreenant

How confident are you? A Psychological Constructs Study.

Hosted by Monja Hoven

£11.25 80  minutes £9.42/hr 20 places remaining