Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

mikep22

allison445 said:

squirrelchops2 said:

allison445 said:

olliebean said:

Give it a couple of years, and we'll be more concerned about not being able to vote than not being able to use Prolific.

I will worry about this when there is actually a political party I trust rather than the lesser or all evils 
If I lose prolific I lose part of my monthly earnings ☹

May I ask how much you tend to earn per month Allison? I was going great guns but things have really slowed down - I am not sure if that is due to less surveys, that I am too slow clicking on them or just that I am missing them as I am working more.

I usually earn anywere between £25-£70 a month with prolific it isn't my best earning survey site but apart from one other it pays the most per survey. It just depends on demographics there is another survey site I do really well on but it gets really bad reviews.
I work from home so I can usually catch  a few a week but for every one I managed to get there are usually 3 or 4 with no places left by the time I click on them

I would be curious to know which site that is, because Prolific is and has been for some time my best earning site. The only other one that comes close to me is Qmee. Though I dont do lots and lots of sites because life gets in the way!

I would agree with your figures there though £25-35 is probably about my benchmark for each month.

July and August are traditionally 'drier' times for surveys as its not in the academic year (says he who is mid writing his dissertation, sadly, Prolific wont get me the data I need about how students with SEN engage with e-Learning!)

c'est_moi

I have been on Prolific for 6 months month and have made on average £65 a month - not bad for studies that I usually enjoy. Qmee surveys are boring and often a waste of times as they don't pay or kick you out half way through. However, I have  made a bit more on them - nearer £80 a month.

Altogether not a bad little savings pot for very little real effort.

allison445

mikep22 said:

allison445 said:

I usually earn anywere between £25-£70 a month with prolific it isn't my best earning survey site but apart from one other it pays the most per survey. It just depends on demographics there is another survey site I do really well on but it gets really bad reviews.
I work from home so I can usually catch  a few a week but for every one I managed to get there are usually 3 or 4 with no places left by the time I click on them

I would be curious to know which site that is, because Prolific is and has been for some time my best earning site. The only other one that comes close to me is Qmee. Though I dont do lots and lots of sites because life gets in the way!

I would agree with your figures there though £25-35 is probably about my benchmark for each month.

July and August are traditionally 'drier' times for surveys as its not in the academic year (says he who is mid writing his dissertation, sadly, Prolific wont get me the data I need about how students with SEN engage with e-Learning!)

The best site for me is opinion outpost I always top the £60 per month with them since lockdown its been more as the product testing and focus groups have increased.
Another good earner for me is panelbase 
Lowest earner for me is Lifepoints but I only do the eye tracking and mintel surveys with them as they are the quickest and best paying.
Prizerebel is another thats a not bad earner for me but again I stick to the toluna and high payers on there 
I have a system in place that works for me 

mikep22

allison445 said:

olliebean said:

Give it a couple of years, and we'll be more concerned about not being able to vote than not being able to use Prolific.

I will worry about this when there is actually a political party I trust rather than the lesser or all evils 
If I lose prolific I lose part of my monthly earnings ☹

Unsure what politics has to do with this - but given its been mentioned, there is 1 party who are evil incarnate, racists, liars and utterly incompetant - who are fronted by a journalist who thinks muslim women look like "letterboxes", have an education secretary who is so incompetant he puts millions of students futures at risk, a bully as home secretary, they are personally responsible for 125k+ coronavirus deaths.... and so on. And this party being in charge is part of the reason why there is so much hate in the country, it stems from the top. 

And then there are the other parties, who are at least normal politicians with varying degrees of trustworthiness - but the bottom line is the Tories are just villians. At least the likes of Cameron was a politician - Johnson is worse then Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.  

mikep22

allison445 said:

mikep22 said:

allison445 said:

I usually earn anywere between £25-£70 a month with prolific it isn't my best earning survey site but apart from one other it pays the most per survey. It just depends on demographics there is another survey site I do really well on but it gets really bad reviews.
I work from home so I can usually catch  a few a week but for every one I managed to get there are usually 3 or 4 with no places left by the time I click on them

I would be curious to know which site that is, because Prolific is and has been for some time my best earning site. The only other one that comes close to me is Qmee. Though I dont do lots and lots of sites because life gets in the way!

I would agree with your figures there though £25-35 is probably about my benchmark for each month.

July and August are traditionally 'drier' times for surveys as its not in the academic year (says he who is mid writing his dissertation, sadly, Prolific wont get me the data I need about how students with SEN engage with e-Learning!)

The best site for me is opinion outpost I always top the £60 per month with them since lockdown its been more as the product testing and focus groups have increased.
Another good earner for me is panelbase 
Lowest earner for me is Lifepoints but I only do the eye tracking and mintel surveys with them as they are the quickest and best paying.
Prizerebel is another thats a not bad earner for me but again I stick to the toluna and high payers on there 
I have a system in place that works for me 

I have used opinion outpost in the past. I got annoyed with excessive screening to be honest, but I like sites with low pay thresholds as your "money" gets to you quicker and doesnt sit in their account. Ive heard horror stories of people with hundreds stashed in sites which have closed down, and theyve lost it all. Once you meet the threshold, cash out asap!

I do Lifepoints also, mostly when I have a quiet day from Prolific and Qmee.

allison445

The political reference was to do with long term prolific members being asked to verify their identity I don't have any photo id's so if I am asked I will be unable to provide it someone else commented that in a few years we may not be able to vote if we do not have id which I am not too fussed about if I am honest losing prolific would be a bigger inconveinence.

I also stick to the sites which allow low instant cash outs I have been stung in the past with sites closing down or needing a few more points to cash out the £50 minimum payout which either takes months to get or never arrive.Most of the sites I use the minimum payout is £5 I also prefer sites which payout via paypal or bacs

Sapindus

My main problem with Prolific at the moment is studies that ask me to sign in and seem to have mistaken me for the researcher.  Typically first thing in the morning, so I send a message but in the meantime it's tying up my account so I have to return it.  By lunchtime I'll have a message from the researcher saying "so sorry, please try again" but of course by then the study will have filled up long ago!    

donglemouse

i've had two like this in the last 24 hours - one that needed me to sign into microsoft forms and another into google sheets

both seemed to deny me access despite various cunning attempts at logging into it into microsoft and google respectively, as you say by the time the researcher gets back to you (if at all), the survey is timed out 

MollyR

I had one of those yesterday;  the researcher apologised and sent me a link to have another go at the study.  It worked - but of course it didn't credit, since Prolific had it marked as Returned.  I've asked the researcher to credit me manually, but I have no idea how she will achieve it!

Value

I reported to Prolific both of those studies which asked me to sign in. I didn't continue with them as I didn't want the researcher to have access to my login details for them and I wasn't sure they'd not be available to them.