Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

willowcat27

INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENT - How to interact with a public official?

By Christoph Engel

£2.00 • £13.85/hr

8 mins

WARNING: This experiment requires the simultaneous participation of 20 participants. Therefore please only enter if you can participate now.

Just wondering if anyone has ever got past the 'waiting for 20 people to join' stage.  This is the second time now I have joined and waited and both times you are in a waiting area for 8 minutes and the counter of participants goes up and down but never gets to 20.  The study then ends and you get the £2 anyway.  I would quite like to do the study, as there are bonus payments to be earned, although it is a very easy way to get £2.

elsien

£15 study paid out as soon as I hit submit. Well impressed, given that I dithered about whether I really wanted to spend an hour on a study at this time of night. 

yupiteru

elsien said:

£15 study paid out as soon as I hit submit. Well impressed, given that I dithered about whether I really wanted to spend an hour on a study at this time of night. 

For the time being I have given up attempting studies that are longer than about 30 mins as it is just not feasible for me to spend that much time without interruption in my present lifestyle conditions.

I can guarantee there will be an interruption of some kind, either domestic or work related and either way I will upset or annoy someone when trying to concentrate on the study and at the same time attempting to explain that I am preoccupied for a while.

Either way people just do not understand and think that I am being awkward.

Like when my partner arrived home earlier than expected with a load of shopping, which is usually my job to sort and put away and I had just began an hour long study - STRESS!

ndf9876

willowcat27 said:

INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENT - How to interact with a public official?

By Christoph Engel

£2.00 • £13.85/hr

8 mins

WARNING: This experiment requires the simultaneous participation of 20 participants. Therefore please only enter if you can participate now.

Just wondering if anyone has ever got past the 'waiting for 20 people to join' stage.  This is the second time now I have joined and waited and both times you are in a waiting area for 8 minutes and the counter of participants goes up and down but never gets to 20.  The study then ends and you get the £2 anyway.  I would quite like to do the study, as there are bonus payments to be earned, although it is a very easy way to get £2.

I just took this and guess what.....not enough participants! As you said, an easy £2 though.

yupiteru

PEOPLE-IMAGES

By David Soto

0 places

Thanks for participating in our study. You will be presented with images depicting people and social situations.

£7.00 • £9.08/hr

46 mins

Well I have immediately contradicted my self from my last post about taking long studies, but when this popped up at 8 o clock last night just as was about to watch Ozark, I could not resist taking a chance of interruption for the money on offer.

All went well, except on the last slide there was an attention check and however much I adjusted my screen zoom and full screen settings, I could not see the crucial word in the instructions, so randomly chose an answer and sent a message to the researcher explaining my choice so will keep my fingers crossed on that one.

Edit - Just got paid for this so all is well.  I usually take a screen shot when this sort of thing occurs, to back up my case in case I have to appeal a rejection, but I forgot this time for some reason.

sammyjammy

yupiteru said:

PEOPLE-IMAGES

By David Soto

0 places

Thanks for participating in our study. You will be presented with images depicting people and social situations.

£7.00 • £9.08/hr

46 mins

Well I have immediately contradicted my self from my last post about taking long studies, but when this popped up at 8 o clock last night just as was about to watch Ozark, I could not resist taking a chance of interruption for the money on offer.

All went well, except on the last slide there was an attention check and however much I adjusted my screen zoom and full screen settings, I could not see the crucial word in the instructions, so randomly chose an answer and sent a message to the researcher explaining my choice so will keep my fingers crossed on that one.

Hope they accept your explanation, that would be so annoying!

Love Ozark - hate Wendy 

silvercar

HR Video Study By Abhishek Unnam

£0.60 • £7.68/hr 4 mins 188 places

Supposedly only 4 minutes, but that includes making 2 videos of yourself and "Since you will be provided a maximum time of 70 seconds to answer each video question, to give a better response, you should take some time to think before you start recording your video response"

I think they need to pay more than 60p and expect the whole survey to take longer than 4 minutes if they want to attract participants!

Chrisv

yupiteru said:

All went well, except on the last slide there was an attention check and however much I adjusted my screen zoom and full screen settings, I could not see the crucial word in the instructions...

Exactly the same here yupiteru, although I made out the second part of the answer as beginning with "A" so answered accordingly. Hope we both get paid 

yupiteru

Chrisv said:

yupiteru said:

All went well, except on the last slide there was an attention check and however much I adjusted my screen zoom and full screen settings, I could not see the crucial word in the instructions...

Exactly the same here yupiteru, although I made out the second part of the answer as beginning with "A" so answered accordingly. Hope we both get paid 

Glad that someone else had the same issue, ha, ha.  Hope we get paid for our troubles and I hope we don't have to wait 21 days or the suspense will kill me.

yupiteru

Adjust a Human Figure

By Qiu Han

0 places

We are interested to see how people perceive different postures of humans.

You will see a body posture of a person for a very short time, then you will see the body of the same person but with a slightly different posture. Press ArrowUp or Arrowdown, and the arm of the body will move upwards or downwards accordingly

£3.50 • £9.08/hr

23 mins

I found this study quite interesting and got paid almost straight away.  This kind of study is what makes prolific great for me and makes a change from the majority of studies of late, that have largely been boring work related tick boxes that I find so tedious and mind numbing.