Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

silvercar

booklover said:

Hi everyone,

I completed this study on 8th May and received the payment of £7.50. However, I believe it should have been a lot more than that. It was conducted over Zoom and took 45 minutes. I don't  see how it could have take much less time than that. Since it stated that the payment would be £89.99 per hour, surely a more realistic payment should have been paid. 

I contacted the researcher who stated that "the complete payment is 7.50 for the interview and the couple of questions prior to it. I hope this was clear to you before you participated, I cannot send any extra payment".

Interview about your views on health and health states

By Stefan Lipman

 £7.50 • £85.99/hr

·5 mins
·   8 places

Did anyone else do this study and how long did it take you? 

Many thanks

You signed up to a study that clearly offered £7.50. It took you 45min, so the pay rate is £10/hr which is reasonable for prolific. I don’t think you have much to complain about. You couldn’t really complain that you expected 7.50 for 5 minutes, yes it occasionally happens but that would be a bonus rather than expected pay rate. I know when I see an advertised rate of £85.99 that something has been calculated wrongly.
Your only complaint could be that you genuinely expected it to take 5 minutes and didn’t have time to spare, but given you completed the survey, that won’t be the case here.

yupiteru

A survey about organizaitonal behavior-Time1

By smail.swufe.edu.cn

0 places

This survey is conducted for academic research about leader-follower interaction. To enroll in this survey, you must have supervisory responsibilities.

£0.94 • £7.70/hr

7 mins

Saw this appear with one place remaining, clicked on it thinking there would be no chance of securing a place, but no, i seemed to have managed it.

Next thought was, 'probably a Gorilla platform study and it will be full', but no it was Qualtrics.

This is the first time I can ever remember completing a study when there was only one place left.

[Deleted User]

I understand your pessimism, yupiteru.

I don't think there is any way of changing things although I do wonder why (?) some days virtually all notifications (I mean a lot of notifications, not just a few) are always full even when spaces are said to be available and when clicking to start immediately.  The problem with the Gorilla Platform studies is that they allow you to reserve a place then tell you it is full. 

This means that there is no option other than to 'Return' the study.  Although there is no penalty for returning the study, it can be inconvenient when, for example, the study can only be done on a computer.  When the notification comes up on, e.g. my Tablet, and a space is 'successfully' secured, I rush to open my laptop to start only to find, with Gorilla, that most times the study is already full.

... I'm still thankful for the successful submissions when they come.

Crimson

yupiteru

Deleted_User said:

I understand your pessimism, yupiteru.

I don't think there is any way of changing things although I do wonder why (?) some days virtually all notifications (I mean a lot of notifications, not just a few) are always full even when spaces are said to be available and when clicking to start immediately.  The problem with the Gorilla Platform studies is that they allow you to reserve a place then tell you it is full. 

This means that there is no option other than to 'Return' the study.  Although there is no penalty for returning the study, it can be inconvenient when, for example, the study can only be done on a computer.  When the notification comes up on, e.g. my Tablet, and a space is 'successfully' secured, I rush to open my laptop to start only to find, with Gorilla, that most times the study is already full.

... I'm still thankful for the successful submissions when they come.

Crimson

Yes I agree and I tend think it must be the algorithm that is used to allocate studies when I get a day of 'full' studies appearing, but I cannot be sure of that obviously, just a theory and could just be bad luck.

I have also stopped using the Prolific assistant add on (in Firefox) completely for the time being, as that has proved to be not in the least bit useful of late and has just been a cause of irritation and a waste of my time and so from a personal perspective I fail to see the point of it.

I can only assume that some people must actually be accessing studies from it, but for me it is just a completely frustrating experience and every study is full so has no purpose whatsoever.

Maybe in a similar way that every company and their dog has to have some kind of app for your phone, whether it is necessary and useful or not, Prolific feel the same and the assistant is merely some kind of branding exercise or curiosity to prove that they exist?

Jenna_Appleseed

Anyone else getting flooded with alerts for Ben Chomsang's New menu test?

eta: there's 59 studies on my page and 57 of them are that + intro for the most recent says you're only eligible for them once.

Jenna_Appleseed

Just had a different survey ask at the end for me to create a participant id via asking for numbers and letters from things that usually get used for security questions like Mothers name/date of birth etc, so you can contact them afterwards incase you change your mind about having your data included. 

(I just gave them some random numbers & letters), they probably wouldn't be able to anything with that data but it still felt a bit hmm.

badamsgirl

Jenna_Appleseed said:

Anyone else getting flooded with alerts for Ben Chomsang's New menu test?

eta: there's 59 studies on my page and 57 of them are that + intro for the most recent says you're only eligible for them once.

48 on mine! i looked through the menu, made a selection, then clicked done then it took me to a typeform message-not sure if that was supposed to be the end of it. No code given.

MollyR

Shockingly badly designed - I cannot imagine why they issued so many identical studies!  And then no code at the end, same as everyone else no doubt.  I bet they'll take the full 21 days to pay out.

And a revolting looking menu, at that!  I would never order any of that.

JGB1955

badamsgirl said:

Jenna_Appleseed said:

Anyone else getting flooded with alerts for Ben Chomsang's New menu test?

eta: there's 59 studies on my page and 57 of them are that + intro for the most recent says you're only eligible for them once.

48 on mine! i looked through the menu, made a selection, then clicked done then it took me to a typeform message-not sure if that was supposed to be the end of it. No code given.

I had the same - didn't even get to see the menu before getting typeform error message... not happy!

Jenna_Appleseed

Last week I got the same hyper-local political survey two days running, on both Prolific and Pureprofile re voting in our upcoming bi-election. (felt probably paid for by the the Lib Dems - they've already leafleted me three times and sent me a letter to try and get me to vote for them *roll eyes*)