Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

elsien

Not for me there isn't. Had load of well paying ones pop up a few days ago when I was too busy to do them, and today I've had one. Which I couldn't do because I was on a video call. Sods law. 

olliebean

Had three today popping up with only one place left, and full by the time I clicked on them.

<edit> Six now. The last three just turned up all at once, not a one of them any use to me by the time I got to them.

Moneybear

Has anyone else had their emails confirming their study response has been approved/paid emails have stopped? I've had a couple approved without having the usual emails the last couple of days. 

badamsgirl

 Had one today which was advertised as 49mins and it took me closer to 1 hr 45 (taking minimal breaks as you had to read a paragraph and rate it on every page for over 400 pages and my arm was getting sore!) and then after i did the final page it said the submission had failed and on my submission page it said it had timed out. It suggested that i complete them all in one sitting (which i did, i just stopped a couple of times for a minute to save a dead arm), but i didn't wander off for 30 minutes, and i can't realistically see how it could of taken much less time if they actually wanted me to read the paragraphs on each page, before rating them. Just annoyed as it wasn't even well paid for the time and rather dull, but i wanted to complete it as i hate not finishing something i started, rather than bail and instead i got nothing for my time! 

allison445

badamsgirl said:

 Had one today which was advertised as 49mins and it took me closer to 1 hr 45 (taking minimal breaks as you had to read a paragraph and rate it on every page for over 400 pages and my arm was getting sore!) and then after i did the final page it said the submission had failed and on my submission page it said it had timed out. It suggested that i complete them all in one sitting (which i did, i just stopped a couple of times for a minute to save a dead arm), but i didn't wander off for 30 minutes, and i can't realistically see how it could of taken much less time if they actually wanted me to read the paragraphs on each page, before rating them. Just annoyed as it wasn't even well paid for the time and rather dull, but i wanted to complete it as i hate not finishing something i started, rather than bail and instead i got nothing for my time! 

I would report is to prolific and also contact the researcher and explain what happened I have had a few time out on me recently and on contacting the researcher they have usually paid.

allison445

Moneybear said:

Has anyone else had their emails confirming their study response has been approved/paid emails have stopped? I've had a couple approved without having the usual emails the last couple of days. 

I am still receiving the response approved emails maybe check your account preferences and check if they have been turned off

CrazySexyCool

badamsgirl said:

 Had one today which was advertised as 49mins and it took me closer to 1 hr 45 (taking minimal breaks as you had to read a paragraph and rate it on every page for over 400 pages and my arm was getting sore!) and then after i did the final page it said the submission had failed and on my submission page it said it had timed out. It suggested that i complete them all in one sitting (which i did, i just stopped a couple of times for a minute to save a dead arm), but i didn't wander off for 30 minutes, and i can't realistically see how it could of taken much less time if they actually wanted me to read the paragraphs on each page, before rating them. Just annoyed as it wasn't even well paid for the time and rather dull, but i wanted to complete it as i hate not finishing something i started, rather than bail and instead i got nothing for my time! 

Was it this one:

Independent judge

Hosted by tamu.edu

£1.9152 minutes £2.18/hr 0 places remaining

The same researcher did the same last Sunday/early hours of Monday.
That first study was underpaying already, but the time had been grossly underestimated.
It timed out, I contacted the researcher, and they still have not paid me.

I got an invite to this one too.
It stated at the start that you have to read and rate 414 business proposals and estimated a completion time of 20 minutes.
Ridiculous!
Claimed that rating each proposal would take about 10 seconds?!?
Even if that was true, 10 seconds per proposal is a total of 4140 seconds, which is over an hour!
I cannot believe the audacity of these researchers!
Complain to Prolific - I certainly am!

badamsgirl

CrazySexyCool said:

badamsgirl said:

 Had one today which was advertised as 49mins and it took me closer to 1 hr 45 (taking minimal breaks as you had to read a paragraph and rate it on every page for over 400 pages and my arm was getting sore!) and then after i did the final page it said the submission had failed and on my submission page it said it had timed out. It suggested that i complete them all in one sitting (which i did, i just stopped a couple of times for a minute to save a dead arm), but i didn't wander off for 30 minutes, and i can't realistically see how it could of taken much less time if they actually wanted me to read the paragraphs on each page, before rating them. Just annoyed as it wasn't even well paid for the time and rather dull, but i wanted to complete it as i hate not finishing something i started, rather than bail and instead i got nothing for my time! 

Was it this one:

Independent judge

Hosted by tamu.edu

£1.9152 minutes £2.18/hr 0 places remaining

The same researcher did the same last Sunday/early hours of Monday.
That first study was underpaying already, but the time had been grossly underestimated.
It timed out, I contacted the researcher, and they still have not paid me.

I got an invite to this one too.
It stated at the start that you have to read and rate 414 business proposals and estimated a completion time of 20 minutes.
Ridiculous!
Claimed that rating each proposal would take about 10 seconds?!?
Even if that was true, 10 seconds per proposal is a total of 4140 seconds, which is over an hour!
I cannot believe the audacity of these researchers!
Complain to Prolific - I certainly am!

Yes it was this one. No way that anyone could do it in the time they suggested unless you were some sort of speed reader and typist. I have complained to profilic aswell.

olliebean

I saw that one, didn't do it as I was about to have my breakfast, but I did notice it was somewhat low-paying, even for the quoted duration. Shocked to hear how much worse it was. I hope Prolific will make the researcher pay the people who did it, at a level commensurate with the actual amount of time it took.

C_J

I've just returned another study from tamu.edu - they seem to be gaining a reputation for not being great. The study was "Rating Business Proposal"  which it said would take 48 minutes and paid £3.79. The payment wasn't great but I thought I would give it a go as sometimes the estimated completion time is overly generous.  It turned out that they wanted you to review and grade 441 (four hundred and forty one!) business proposals, and to read each of them properly, consider them, and grade them would have taken hours. I waded through 60 of them, thinking it might be a trick and they might say after the first couple of dozen that the study was complete (and that it might have been a test to see how much you were willing to do) but then I gave up and returned it. The pay didn't justify the amount of effort required, at all. I have complained to Prolific.

Did anyone else get this one?