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Sorcery

After three years on Prolific and numerous surveys I have had one rejected because I failed an attention check. I'm a little surprised because I am always so careful to give my full attention to surveys.  This is the first time that this has happened to me.  Does this mean that I will get less surveys from now on?

elsien

No, it shouldn't do. Only if there is a pattern of having lots of surveys rejected.  
Happens to the best of it. You can always follow up with the researcher if you want to see why they have rejected it.

welshspendthrift

@Sorcery this happened to me today. I was surprised too as I pay attention but couldn’t be sure I didn’t miss it. 

JGB1955

olliebean said:

JoeCrystal said:

With a very annoying study taking up a slot as below (I can see why people are so reluctant to do it, did anyone here done the study?), double-check your About You screen, there are quite new questions that need to be answered. 

• Data Task: 'screen capture' Google Search History. $1.80

  Hosted by Measure Protocol Limited

  £1.298 minutes £9.65/hr 525 places remaining

I did that one a couple of weeks back. It said it would take 2-3 minutes, but actually took about 10, due to the time taken to install the screen capture app and having to repeat the task because it didn't work properly the first time. The task was to scroll through your search history on your phone and upload a screen capture video of you doing it. I don't think they could have got any useful info from mine, because I scrolled as fast as I possibly could ("super fast," as the instructions encouraged me to do), and the screen was blank most of the time as my phone couldn't keep up with the speed of scrolling. Anyway, I still got paid - it was £1.70 when I did it.

(Thanks for the heads-up on the "About You" questions, btw, although I doubt any of my answers to the new ones are going to get me any more studies.)

I ended up returning that one as I couldn't work out how to do the screen capture.  I only had 3 entries anyway (all very boring you-tube ones).  

mwh2412

Sorcery said:

After three years on Prolific and numerous surveys I have had one rejected because I failed an attention check. I'm a little surprised because I am always so careful to give my full attention to surveys.  This is the first time that this has happened to me.  Does this mean that I will get less surveys from now on?

I had one the other day where it was claimed a failed attention check... I don't believe I did fail it... I think they maybe getting free data...

allison445

loads seem to have a ton of attention checks these days there are also some which kick you straight off the survey if you get the attention check wrong which is fine in the first few minutes but really annoying 20 or 30 minutes in.
The guide for reasearcher on prolific states 
What if they only fail one attention check?
A single failed attention check can only be used as a basis for rejection if your study is very short (e.g. under 5 mins).
If the survey you were rejected for was longer I would contact the researcher and explain that you feel the rejection was unfair 
The guide is here 
https://researcher-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/articles/360009223553-Using-attention-checks-as-a-measure-of-data-quality

albion22

JGB1955 said:

olliebean said:

JoeCrystal said:

With a very annoying study taking up a slot as below (I can see why people are so reluctant to do it, did anyone here done the study?), double-check your About You screen, there are quite new questions that need to be answered. 

• Data Task: 'screen capture' Google Search History. $1.80

  Hosted by Measure Protocol Limited

  £1.298 minutes £9.65/hr 525 places remaining

I did that one a couple of weeks back. It said it would take 2-3 minutes, but actually took about 10, due to the time taken to install the screen capture app and having to repeat the task because it didn't work properly the first time. The task was to scroll through your search history on your phone and upload a screen capture video of you doing it. I don't think they could have got any useful info from mine, because I scrolled as fast as I possibly could ("super fast," as the instructions encouraged me to do), and the screen was blank most of the time as my phone couldn't keep up with the speed of scrolling. Anyway, I still got paid - it was £1.70 when I did it.

(Thanks for the heads-up on the "About You" questions, btw, although I doubt any of my answers to the new ones are going to get me any more studies.)

I ended up returning that one as I couldn't work out how to do the screen capture.  I only had 3 entries anyway (all very boring you-tube ones).  

Same with me. Didn't function properly and instructions not very clear or precise. I gave up after over 10 minutes and returned with appropriate comments which were acknowledged but nothing else.

cagsd

JoeCrystal said:

With a very annoying study taking up a slot as below (I can see why people are so reluctant to do it, did anyone here done the study?), double-check your About You screen, there are quite new questions that need to be answered. 

• Data Task: 'screen capture' Google Search History. $1.80

  Hosted by Measure Protocol Limited

  £1.298 minutes £9.65/hr 525 places remaining

I had this one a few days ago, but like others, ended up returning it.  I spent about 15 minutes first downloading the screen recording app, then scrolling through my google history (took ages!) and then attempting to upload the video, but it kept saying I hadn't added a valid video or something.  I gave up in the end and just clicked return, what a waste of time.

Moneybear

I have done this task

Data Task: 'screen capture' Google Search History. $1.80 for ~3 minutes + Upload Time

I used my phones screenrecord software and uploaded that. It took me closer to 10 minutes because I google everything lol. It has been approved. 

Sorcery

allison445 said:

The guide for reasearcher on prolific states 
What if they only fail one attention check?
A single failed attention check can only be used as a basis for rejection if your study is very short (e.g. under 5 mins).
If the survey you were rejected for was longer I would contact the researcher and explain that you feel the rejection was unfair 
The guide is here 
https://researcher-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/articles/360009223553-Using-attention-checks-as-a-measure-of-data-quality

Thank you for this.  It was a longer survey, so I messaged the researcher yesterday and have just had a message back saying that  I'm correct and that he will remove the rejection and pay me    Thank you very much.