Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

MollyR

A study about reflection

Hosted by Shelley Hoppe

£1.50  5 minutes £15.70/hr

Says 5 minutes initially, when you open it it says 10-15 minutes, then next page it says 10 minutes, and it actually took less than 3 minutes.

olliebean

Had a good one the other day, £3 for (it said) 20-25 minutes but actually took under 10 minutes. The study involved watching a sequence of letters presented one at a time and pressing a key to indicate whether the letter was the same as or different from the immediately preceding one. If you got them all right (which I did), there was a £5 bonus for a total of £8, very nice for under 10 minutes work.

MollyR

I had one like that some time ago, but in that case you had to say whether the letter was the same as the one before last - which is much more difficult than it sounds!  Fortunately there was no bonus on that one, because I would certainly not have earned it.

olliebean

Yes, I kept expecting it to get more difficult as the task went on, by asking me to match letters 2 or more steps back, but it didn't. Maybe some people got a more difficult version and I was just lucky!

allison445

Workplace experience

£0.42 14 minutes £1.72/hr

Cant believe how little some of the prolific studies are paying recently this one was dull and boring and seemed to take longer than 14 minutes although I for some reason thought it was a 4 minute survey but realised my error when it went on and on

Tahlullah.H

I agree.  I also managed to get a survey rejected because of what I believe to be poorly written English - with a double negative, so I did what I believed they wanted.  And it took much longer to complete than the estimated time frame.  Not sure it is worth my time complaining or arguing in these instances.

allison445

Managing debt repayments

Hosted by Chris Burke

£1.25 22 minutes £3.41/hr 49 places remaining

MollyR

I have been offered this too (by email as well as on the Prolific site) and have ignored it.  It is showing as £1.25 for 26 minutes,  £2.79 per hour, with 173 places remaining.  I don't know why there are now more places than there were, but it's far too low-paying to undertake.

warby68

I've done it - I didn't notice the pay til the end and have reported.
Just to say i don't think it took me 26 minutes and its very well suited to this forum - its all about deciding which debts to pay off within a budget! There's a lot of arithmetic but simple enough.

welshspendthrift

I completed this too must remember to time my surveys ( unless cleverer people will tell me that it will be shown somewhere ?) easy enough just lots of arithmetic!