Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Racheljaa

Did anybody else get this message......what a cheek. I can't imagine anyone would post completion codes or am I being naive?

Greetings, I've reviewed the data in this experiment, and there were 1447 total funding requests, even though fewer than 600 people participanted in the experiment. This means that a vast majority of respondents simply entered a completion code without participating, likely because someone posted this to a common listserv. I'm going through record by record searching for Prolific IDs. If I do not find a Prolific ID associated with a complete response, I will be forced to reject the assignment, but I'd like to give you a chance to return the submission first so that I do not impact your record. Please return applicable submissions within the next 12 hours so that I can re-open this link for actual participants. Thank you. Sincerely, Tim

DontBringBertie

Racheljaa said:

Did anybody else get this message......what a cheek. I can't imagine anyone would post completion codes or am I being naive?

Greetings, I've reviewed the data in this experiment, and there were 1447 total funding requests, even though fewer than 600 people participanted in the experiment. This means that a vast majority of respondents simply entered a completion code without participating, likely because someone posted this to a common listserv. I'm going through record by record searching for Prolific IDs. If I do not find a Prolific ID associated with a complete response, I will be forced to reject the assignment, but I'd like to give you a chance to return the submission first so that I do not impact your record. Please return applicable submissions within the next 12 hours so that I can re-open this link for actual participants. Thank you. Sincerely, Tim

I was just gonna post this. It’s clearly an error with their survey rather than participants.

The idea that someone has posted completion codes is laughable, why would anyone bother? And surely ‘Tim’ can do a look up to identify any duplicate completion codes if he thinks that’s what happened?

I think what actually happened is they set the payment too high (£3.60 for 8 mins £24.67 per hour) and realised he hasn’t got the budget.

Value

Racheljaa, yes, I just got that message too. I had previously messaged this researcher as I had to return this study. It was one which wasn't accepting my Prolific Id as he'd set it to only accept numerals. I was surprised therefore to get his message this evening. I've responded back to him to tell him I didn't enter a completion code, I hadn't completed the study and I couldn't see how anyone could have entered one unless they'd completed the study.

I wondered if his list was somehow everyone who had started the study rather than everyone who had completed it?

Rangersgirl

yeah i got that too . What a cheek i dont see anyway of doing what he suggests. If it was posted on a site then he will just need to reject all those who used the same code. Just report it to Prolific i have. Sounds like he wants to reopen it at and not pay as much as promised. Dont know whether to return it or not. Dont want a rejection.

willowcat27

Thank heavens for this forum - got the same message for that study as well.  I came straight on here to see if anyone else had got it.  I have returned the study even though I remember completing it.
I had submitted it with a 'no code' as I seem to remember that on the last page there was two options, a link back to prolific or a forward arrow and I didn't know which one to select.  I choose the forward arrow as I wanted to make sure my answers were logged but the arrow just closed the page down with no way to get back into it so I then had no option but to submit a 'no code.
Anyway it's not worth the worry of getting a rejection so I have returned it.  I did think it was a bit strange at the time that it was £3.60 for 8 mins.

Racheljaa

I haven't returned it. I messaged the researcher back to say I had completed the survey honestly...

elsien

I got the message even though I didn’t complete the study because of a technical problem so haven’t got anything to return. I think he’s sending the message out to everyone regardless. If I had completed it I certainly wouldn’t be returning it. 

Chrisv

allison445 said:

Is anyone having issues with slow loading pages on the new updated prolific site when I click on a notification of a study via the assist or via prolific itself the page takes ages to load and by the time it does the study is full 

Same here Allison, very slow since yesterday. I was thinking it was my wifi, but no problems on any other sites.

olliebean

Chrisv said:

allison445 said:

Is anyone having issues with slow loading pages on the new updated prolific site when I click on a notification of a study via the assist or via prolific itself the page takes ages to load and by the time it does the study is full 

Same here Allison, very slow since yesterday. I was thinking it was my wifi, but no problems on any other sites.

It's been intermittently slow for me for quite some time, but this latest update seems to have made it more consistently so.

[Deleted User]

I also received  the message from Tim.  I had Returned the study as I was unable to get it to accept my Prolific ID.  I informed the Researcher about the problem and said that I had no alternative but to Return the study - same as many others here.

I gave Prolific 'Technical Problem' as my reason for returning the study. 

Crimson