Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

[Deleted User]

It's  frustrating, elsien.  Hopefully you'll be able to identify the problem.

I was pleased to reserve a place  on an interesting one this morning only to find, after a few questions, that my browser window was not big enough - even when full screen.  At least  I knew why I was screened out.

Crimson

yupiteru

Psychology Study
By Computational Cognitive Science Lab
£6.05 • £23.21/hr
15 mins

1 places

In this study, you will watch short videos and answer questions about them.

Managed to secure a place but even though it was not a Gorilla study I encountered the following message:

'This study is not accepting participants, please try again later'

Very frustrating I must say.

olgadapolga

yupiteru said:

Psychology Study
By Computational Cognitive Science Lab
£6.05 • £23.21/hr
15 mins

1 places

In this study, you will watch short videos and answer questions about them.

Managed to secure a place but even though it was not a Gorilla study I encountered the following message:

'This study is not accepting participants, please try again later'

Very frustrating I must say.

Same here. 

MollyR

And me three.

[Deleted User]

Same for me - really frustrating.  Hopefully today,  Prolific,  will get better for all of us.

Update:  Just had another 'New Study available on Prolific notification:  "

Business consultant simulation with technology

By j tantan"

I clicked to start straight away and, yes, study full!

Kavor

Deleted_User said:

Same for me - really frustrating.  Hopefully today,  Prolific,  will get better for all of us.

Update:  Just had another 'New Study available on Prolific notification:  "

Business consultant simulation with technology

By j tantan"

I clicked to start straight away and, yes, study full!

You wouldn't want to do that one :-

Business consultant simulation with technology

By j tantan

£0.50 • £1.07/hr

28 mins

 0 places

Sapindus

I have had a frustrating few days... Last night there was this one:

What Features Are Useful For Humans In Distinguishing Authentic / Fake Face Images? Copy

By nd.edu

I had all sorts of problems annotating the fake/real faces with the cursor not working properly and pictures not advancing.  In the end I emailed the researcher who said there was a critical server overload and please to "return the hit" but by the this time I'd spent 20 minutes trying to get it to work.

Before that there were two linked studies on gamlbing websites which took some time and used eye tracking. Both times the calibration worked but then the researcher emailed me to say the data was was not good enough and had my lighting been OK.  The first time, they paid me anyway.  The second time I managed to get in and return it before they paid me, even though they said they were going to. 

These were all quite high paying studies (£3-7 sort of thing) and I've not been on the laptop much so was annoying to lose out!  But still, my average daily payment since the start of April, if I carried on at that rate, would earn me nearly £1000 for the year so I need to slow down a bit at some point anyway or I'll have to tell the taxman!

Value

Kavor said:

Business consultant simulation with technology

By j tantan

£0.50 • £1.07/hr

28 mins

 0 places

This wasn't another 'YT Wang by another name' one by any chance?

[Deleted User]

Value said:

Kavor said:

Business consultant simulation with technology

By j tantan

£0.50 • £1.07/hr

28 mins

 0 places

This wasn't another 'YT Wang by another name' one by any chance?

I have found, much too late, that it probably was.  I think the notification must have come a second time because  it was full the first time and I didn't notice that it was the same Study.

I had been timed out but did not know and I regret that I spent time and effort continuing to the end of the Study.  I contacted the Researcher and Prolific.  I'm afraid, as before, I expect no reply.

[Deleted User]

MollyR said:

If you have only just joined Facebook, be sure to lock down your profile for the sake of privacy.  There are many web sites out there which tell you how to go about it;  https://www.howtogeek.com/773808/how-to-lock-your-facebook-profile/ is a pretty reliable one.

With my limited ability I followed your good advice and did everything possible to secure my profile.  This morning an email arrived from Facebook: 

"There was an unsuccessful login attempt on your account. If this wasn't you, let us know".

I feel very uncomfortable about it.  The Facebook requirement seems to be an essential requirement  of the Study: 

"Survey on social movements in the UK

By maastrichtuniversity.nl"

I'm going to contact the Researcher because I have decided to close my newly opened Facebook account.  I was willing to try but I don't think Facebook is quite right for me. 

Thank you very much for your help, MollyR.

Crimson