Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

yupiteru

olliebean said:

yupiteru said:

Encounters with urban wildlife

By Dirk van der Linden

£0.50 • £4.77/hr

6 mins

66 places

In this study, you will be asked to tell us about your interactions with urban wildlife by describing both a positive and negative encounter you can recall, and how it made you feel.

More interesting than the usual working from home or management studies I seem to be inundated with of late.

Underpaying due to the completion time being optimistic, mainly due to three free text exercises relating to wildlife encounters and took me more like 15 to 20 mins to complete, including thinking about it.

Reported as underpaying.

Surprisingly busy for a Saturday on Prolific, but I am going for riverside walk soon which I will no doubt regret due to the very hot temperature at the moment here with little breeze (and the horseflies!).

Yeah, I avoided that one because I really don't like essay questions and they always take me longer than the time estimated. Also I don't feel I could have adequately participated in this one anyway. "I saw a fox. It made me feel like I'd seen a fox." Probably not the level of emotional engagement they're looking for.

Yes, I understand exactly what you are saying.  I couldn't resist it after having close encounters with mink and badgers recently, as where I live is probably what you would describe as semi rural.

Also a sea gull eating a large sausage that my daughter had dropped in Cardiff city centre, by picking it up in it's beak and sliding it down it's throat whole, is a recipe for indigestion I will never forget seeing.

MollyR

I encountered a seagull which would have suffered far more severely than that.  I was just sitting down on top of the cliffs to have my picnic lunch, which was in a brown paper carrier bag, but a tomato had squashed and the bottom of the bag gave way.  A hard-boiled egg rolled down the slope, and this herring gull swooped down, grabbed it and swallowed it whole.  I bet it was unhappy for days after that.

Ivana_B_Rich

yupiteru said:

Encounters with urban wildlife

By Dirk van der Linden

£0.50 • £4.77/hr

6 mins

66 places

In this study, you will be asked to tell us about your interactions with urban wildlife by describing both a positive and negative encounter you can recall, and how it made you feel.

More interesting than the usual working from home or management studies I seem to be inundated with of late.

Underpaying due to the completion time being optimistic, mainly due to three free text exercises relating to wildlife encounters and took me more like 15 to 20 mins to complete, including thinking about it.

Reported as underpaying.

Surprisingly busy for a Saturday on Prolific, but I am going for riverside walk soon which I will no doubt regret due to the very hot temperature at the moment here with little breeze (and the horseflies!).

Do the horseflies count as urban wildlife, they certainly are a negative experience 

Completely off topic but... Horseflies hunt by sight and are primarily attracted to darker colours. Their eyesight can't cope with zebra stripes. So wearing something light in colour or patterned can reduce the number of attacks. I'm not suggesting you go out dressed as a zebra or even zebra crossing but 

yupiteru

Ivana_B_Rich said:

yupiteru said:

Encounters with urban wildlife

By Dirk van der Linden

£0.50 • £4.77/hr

6 mins

66 places

In this study, you will be asked to tell us about your interactions with urban wildlife by describing both a positive and negative encounter you can recall, and how it made you feel.

More interesting than the usual working from home or management studies I seem to be inundated with of late.

Underpaying due to the completion time being optimistic, mainly due to three free text exercises relating to wildlife encounters and took me more like 15 to 20 mins to complete, including thinking about it.

Reported as underpaying.

Surprisingly busy for a Saturday on Prolific, but I am going for riverside walk soon which I will no doubt regret due to the very hot temperature at the moment here with little breeze (and the horseflies!).

Do the horseflies count as urban wildlife, they certainly are a negative experience 

Completely off topic but... Horseflies hunt by sight and are primarily attracted to darker colours. Their eyesight can't cope with zebra stripes. So wearing something light in colour or patterned can reduce the number of attacks. I'm not suggesting you go out dressed as a zebra or even zebra crossing but 

I was never bothered by horseflies in the past, but in recent years they have proved to be a big problem for me, especially since I have been diagnosed with diabetes.  I have to be very careful as the wound after a bite when their powerful mandibles have ripped a chunk out of my flesh can easily become infected

Good advice you have given regarding patterned/striped clothing as the usual insect repellents do not appear to work with horseflies because as you correctly state they hunt by sight.

Incredible creatures though and many sources claim they are the fastest flying insects on earth and if they are hungry (blood diet) it is practically impossible to out run them, as I believe they can travel around 25mph even though some sources claim a much higher top speed.

yupiteru

What's your personality type?

By Carolyn Hoyle

£1.34 • £8.87/hr

9 mins

0 places

Hey, I’m a student and I’m running a study on people’s personality and their views about society. Would really appreciate it if you filled out my survey - you can get your personality results at the end of the questionnaire which is super interesting. It tells you whether you are extroverted, agreeable, conscientious etc.

Just about to go for a walk and avoid the gulls and the horseflies and this appeared.

Timing was about right and nothing too demanding involved.

yupiteru

The role of the end-user in the development of responsible AI systems

Just got the following message from the researcher regarding this timed out submission:

"Hi - Sorry for the delay. After discussing with the Prolific team, we have just processed all "awaiting review" submissions. As I mentioned previously, now we will process all timed-out submissions. You will receive either a payment or a message explaining why we cannot consider your submission. Probably, this will happen this week. Please, bear with us. Thank you."

olgadapolga

So, despite there being 193 places available, the study was "full" and directed me to return it.




Not sure why the images were specifically of women though. 

wibblewibble

I'm having the same issue with that one it says 164 places available but when I click through to take the survey its saying full and to return it - I've contacted the researcher and will wait awhile to see if I can get in. 

koala987

I had exactly the same issue with that survey - at the time it said 243 places were available, but when I clicked through it said the survey was full.  I contacted the researcher too, so will wait to see what happens.

olliebean

Survey on everyday reasoning 8

By UCLA Reasoning lab

£1.09 • £3.46/hr

18 mins

 0 places

Once you click the link, you will be RANDOMLY assigned to one of seven groups. The expected time and payment for each group are as follows:

Group 1: around 45 minutes, $7.13

Group 2: around 40 minutes, $6.34

Group 3: around 35 minutes, $5.55

Group 4: around 30 minutes, $4.75

Group 5: around 25 minutes, $3.96

Group 6: around 20 minutes, $3.17

Group 7: around 15 minutes, $2.38

Group 8: around 10 minutes, $1.60

I got assigned to the 45 minute group, which was already worrying as the maximum allowed time on Prolific was 44 minutes. Then the first question required a free text answer describing my hypothetical feelings on picking up an injured bird, and I couldn't be doing with an "estimated" 45 minutes of that sort of thing (which in my experience always estimates less time than it actually takes me), so I returned it.