Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

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DontBringBertie said:

Did anyone try the study below? Asks you to log in to a uni page so impossible to do the study…

Advertising creativity and effectiveness survey. 

By newcastle.ac.uk 

£1.50 • £18.00/hr 

5 mins

 12 places

I got this one twice, even after returning it the first time and returned again for the second time after i stupidly thought it might have been changed to not need to create an account/log in. Maybe its just for students with accounts?

yupiteru

Job crafting and error orientation

orientation Copy Copy

By Maria Doblinger

20 places

In this study participants are asked to answer questions on their job autonomy, well-being, and typical behavior at work. Optionally, participants can get a feedback regarding their scores in handling errors and crafting one's job compared to other employees

£0.75 • £9.00/hr

5 mins

Sunday morning excitement, well not really, but I don't usually see many studies this time of the week.

Submitted as NOCODE as nothing appeared at the end, just a page stating my response had been recorded.

yupiteru

Politics on Twitter

By kent.ac.uk

0 places

What will I need to do?

You will learn about political sentiments and how to identify them in text. You will then be tasked with identifying them in text from Twitter tweets. Finally, you will be asked about your experience of the study and about your demographic background (e.g., age).

£4.00 • £13.89/hr

17 mins

Just about to go down Tesco for the cat food and this appeared.  Refreshing to see someone not trying to get out of paying for my time.

yupiteru

Remember the words you've seen

By Mikhail Katkov

0 places

HELP US DISCOVER HOW HUMAN MEMORY WORKS!

£2.00 • £7.29/hr

16 mins

Productive day for a Sunday, considering I was not logged on much, as the sun was calling me to go outdoors for long walk.

cloudylemonade13

Best paying study I've had for a while. Took about 30 mins and paid within 10 minutes of completing!

The Opinion Game'; Only starting between 2:40PM GMT (now) and 2.50PM GMT

By Behavioral Experiments

£15.00 • £22.81/hr

39 mins

yupiteru

Day 1 of the three day experiment on completing transcription tasks final May 8

By ucd.ie

0 places

In this three-day experiment, we are interested in your decisions about how many transcription tasks to complete today, tomorrow, and the day after

£2.00 • £4.67/hr

25 mins

This study reminded me of the days when I used to do data entry for a living.  At the end of the day my eyesight was so badly effected by staring at the screen for hours on end, that I kept getting on the wrong bus to get me home - how I laughed.

Study started out at £6 per hour, but dropped so obviously the timing was wrong.  One of the few occasions when my 'stopwatch of truth' agreed with other peoples timings.

Will be interesting to see if an adjustment is made, but I won't hold my breath - Prolific of late have been as sincere as a used car salesman.

olliebean

Are they offering you bonuses for completing more transcription tasks? If not, why would anyone choose to do more than the minimum?

yupiteru

olliebean said:

Are they offering you bonuses for completing more transcription tasks? If not, why would anyone choose to do more than the minimum?

Yes there is a bonus scheme and I have copied the text and tables relevant to the transcription tasks.  It has been made to seem far more complicated that it need be, maybe intentionally.

Obviously I cant disclose all, but here is the basis information:

“On each of the 3 study days you have the opportunity to earn additional money by completing transcription tasks.

You have to do at least 3 jobs (6 transcription tasks) and a maximum of 13 jobs (91 transcriptions tasks).

You will face wages between 1 penny per job and 9 pence per job.

You decide how many of these jobs (from 3 to 13) you want to complete and you chose from a list of payment rates which rate you want to be paid.

The survey software will randomly select ONE of your payment decisions”

I picked the lowest number of transcription tasks (data entry tasks) for each rate, as you could potentially end doing a lot of tasks for very little and you only get the completion payment if you correctly type in at least 95% of the tasks you committed to complete.

I do not fancy that and the payment for the three studies is £9 without taking into account the bonus payment for the transcription tasks.

olliebean

validation

By PW PW

71 places

£0.50 • £6.00/hr

5 mins

Just a warning, I realised as I was doing this one that it was almost certainly another YT Wang study, the same survey design and the same style of tedious questions that just went on and on and on. I returned it as soon as I realised, but not before it had wasted some of my time. I see that since I started it the average completion time has increased from 5 to 21 minutes, and hence the pay rate reduced from £6 to £1.41/hr.

elsien

olliebean said:

validation

By PW PW

71 places

£0.50 • £6.00/hr

5 mins

Just a warning, I realised as I was doing this one that it was almost certainly another YT Wang study, the same survey design and the same style of tedious questions that just went on and on and on. I returned it as soon as I realised, but not before it had wasted some of my time. I see that since I started it the average completion time has increased from 5 to 21 minutes, and hence the pay rate reduced from £6 to £1.41/hr.

I had the same one and have just reported it for the £1.39 rate of pay.