Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

DontBringBertie

Did anyone do the ‘a nice study on voice perception’ earlier? 

Pretty weird listening to people laugh and cry for 10 minutes for £1.50!

olliebean

DontBringBertie said:

Did anyone do the ‘a nice study on voice perception’ earlier? 

Pretty weird listening to people laugh and cry for 10 minutes for £1.50!

Yes, I did it. I suspect in some cases they had dubbed the sound of someone laughing onto a video of someone crying or vice versa (sometimes they sounded pretty ambiguous), and the point was to see how the visuals affected our perceptions of the sounds.

squirrelchops2

I haven't done the 'what data is stored on your phone' survey and in fact went so far as to dismiss it entirely. I doesn't sit right with me.

mrsyardbroom

There's a new survey on PA now offering just 13p for six minutes or £1.21 an hour. I thought there was a minimum rate.

DiamondLil

mrsyardbroom said:

There's a new survey on PA now offering just 13p for six minutes or £1.21 an hour. I thought there was a minimum rate.

I’ve reported it. £1.21 per hour for heavens’ sake 

yupiteru

A Study of the Risks of Sharing and Posting Online Copy

By strath.ac.uk

0 places

The aim of this study is to investigate your awareness and understanding of the risks associated with sharing and posting information online. As part of this study, we will ask you to explore the social media posts and web pages associated with a fictitious person to spot which posts might put this person at risk, e.g., having their identity stolen or their account hacked.

 It takes approximately 15-20 minutes to explore the posts. If you do not spend a sufficient amount of time exploring the posts or you fail to identify concerning posts you may not be rewarded for this study.

Beforehand, we will ask you a few questions about you, and your online behavior, and following this activity, we will ask you about your experience and feedback on the activity and study.

£3.75 • £7.27/hr

30 mins

Not sure what world some of these researchers live in, as it took me a lot longer than 'approximately 15 - 20 mins' to explore the posts, probably double that time, only then to realise that there were a number of other sections to complete as well afterwards.

I could complain I suppose, but it could just be my 'sausage finger syndrome' that means despite using a keyboard in a professional capacity for many years, I am still painfully slow compared to some of the amazing young people I work alongside and the pages seemed to take for ever to load for me as well.

Despite that it was an interesting study, but like it or not, the majority of us have an online profile these days with or without social media and with things like the 'Electoral Register' etc available online it is possible to unearth personal information about an individual relatively easily if you really want to.

olliebean

yupiteru said:

 It takes approximately 15-20 minutes to explore the posts. If you do not spend a sufficient amount of time exploring the posts or you fail to identify concerning posts you may not be rewarded for this study.

I'd be a little concerned about the clause stating you may not be rewarded "if you fail to identify concerning posts." The purpose of the study appears to be precisely to investigate how good people are at identifying concerning posts, and if what they discover is that you're not very good at it, that should still be useful data to them and they have no business rejecting submissions that show this.

yupiteru

olliebean said:

yupiteru said:

 It takes approximately 15-20 minutes to explore the posts. If you do not spend a sufficient amount of time exploring the posts or you fail to identify concerning posts you may not be rewarded for this study.

I'd be a little concerned about the clause stating you may not be rewarded "if you fail to identify concerning posts." The purpose of the study appears to be precisely to investigate how good people are at identifying concerning posts, and if what they discover is that you're not very good at it, that should still be useful data to them and they have no business rejecting submissions that show this.

Yes, I can see what you mean, I got paid yesterday for the study so all was well.

Some studies give me stress, as I am worrying about being rejected and this was one of them.

 All the posts were a little ambiguous in respect of containing personally identifying material in my opinion, but then again I am not in the business of stealing identities.

[Deleted User]

Although I understand that there is no 'penalty' I am concerned about the increasing number of studies I have no option other than to 'Return' when, after securing a place (when places are available) and attempting to start almost immediately, this notice comes up:

"Experiment not available This experiment is currently full. Please return to the instructions that the experiment owner has sent you." 

It happened most recently this morning.  What I find 'difficult' is that there is no option other than to Return the Study when the only choice is to Return the study.  For example, it is not possible to let Prolific know, at the point of 'Returning the Study' that it is an enforced decision.

I wonder if it is, generally, happening much more often now (studies have places available, a place is reserved, then, subsequently, it has to be Returned as there are no places availabile), or if perhaps I am just unfortunate.  Thank you for any opinions or experiences with this.  I really am concerned about the increasing number of 'Returned Studies' I now have, often one or more every day and, at worst, four in a fow in the same day.

Crimson

olliebean

Deleted_User said:

Although I understand that there is no 'penalty' I am concerned about the increasing number of studies I have no option other than to 'Return' when, after securing a place (when places are available) and attempting to start almost immediately, this notice comes up:

"Experiment not available This experiment is currently full. Please return to the instructions that the experiment owner has sent you." 

It happened most recently this morning.  What I find 'difficult' is that there is no option other than to Return the Study when the only choice is to Return the study.  For example, it is not possible to let Prolific know, at the point of 'Returning the Study' that it is an enforced decision.

I wonder if it is, generally, happening much more often now (studies have places available, a place is reserved, then, subsequently, it has to be Returned as there are no places availabile), or if perhaps I am just unfortunate.  Thank you for any opinions or experiences with this.  I really am concerned about the increasing number of 'Returned Studies' I now have, often one or more every day and, at worst, four in a fow in the same day.

Crimson

When you return the study, select that there was a technical issue at the start of the study, then you can indicate that the study was full.

For what it's worth, I have returned loads of studies by choice (i.e., because "I was no longer interested"), and haven't suffered any penalty or reduction in studies offered because of it.