Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

yupiteru

A study about lottery predictions

By student.unimelb.edu.au

£4.30 • £7.18/hr

35 mins

0 places

In this study, you will predict the outcome of a lottery based on information you receive.

Made a change from the usual work related studies and I 'won' a small bonus of about 50p.

Took me 33 mins according to my stopwatch

elsien

Anyone having a problem with prolific assistant? It’s telling me there a survey but giving an error message when I click on the survey, for those with and without spaces. 

yupiteru

Sorry I can't help, I stopped using the assistant months ago and my life is much happier.  I find the overall Prolific experience much more pleasurable without it, as I found I was just pointlessly chasing one place studies all day.

My Prolific earnings and number of studies completed has not changed at all and I can get more of the work I am supposed to be doing completed.

Obviously this is just my personal opinion and some people must see some benefit from the assistant, but It does not offer anything for me at present other than time wasting and irritation.

Maybe my opinion will change in the future, who knows?

silvercar

I have just reported 2 studies from "Joe from pie platform" for underpaying. 

They both involved a text conversation, one with another person and one with AI.

The first one was particularly slow as the other person took ages to respond. I kept an eye on the time and ended the conversation just before it timed out. It still gave me a completion code. 

yupiteru

Your ideal future self online form

By usb.ac.za

£4.00 • £17.56/hr

13 mins

0 places

Complete a short online form about your ideal future self and then complete a short survey about your experience: 

We are conducting an academic survey about users' experience of thinking about their ideal future self. Select the link below to access a questionnaire about your future self. At the end of the questionnaire you will receive a link to an online survey where you can share your experience of thinking about your future self. At the end of that survey you will receive a survey code.

After completing the survey please paste the survey code into the relevant space on the Prolific website to receive credit for completing this job.

If you do not like typing then this is not the study for you, I almost returned it after the second page but decided to persevere.

It did not actually take that long, but just felt like it.

olliebean

Trusting Online Information

By warwick.ac.uk

£3.47 • £9.20/hr

22 mins

 0 places

Just wondering if anyone else had problems with this one. The study was to involve watching a number of videos from TikTok, and answering questions about them. But I was unable to adequately view the first video, as it kept buffering every couple of seconds - a minute into trying to watch it, I still wasn't halfway through the 20 second video. So I returned the study. I guess the researcher didn't pay for a fast enough server.

fabsaver

olliebean said:

Trusting Online Information

By warwick.ac.uk

£3.47 • £9.20/hr

22 mins

 0 places

Just wondering if anyone else had problems with this one. The study was to involve watching a number of videos from TikTok, and answering questions about them. But I was unable to adequately view the first video, as it kept buffering every couple of seconds - a minute into trying to watch it, I still wasn't halfway through the 20 second video. So I returned the study. I guess the researcher didn't pay for a fast enough server.

Yes I had exactly the same issues.

The videos were constantly buffering and freezing. Each one was taking several minutes to play, even though they were all supposed to be less than a minute. It was impossible to understand anything that was being said because it was buffering so much.

Several times pressing the forward arrow after the influencer description just went straight to the questions page, without even showing me the video at all.

I didn't return it, as I persevered with it for far too long. 

I know it isn't my connection and like you say it must be the researchers server.

olliebean

olliebean said:

Trusting Online Information

By warwick.ac.uk

£3.47 • £9.20/hr

22 mins

 0 places

Just wondering if anyone else had problems with this one. The study was to involve watching a number of videos from TikTok, and answering questions about them. But I was unable to adequately view the first video, as it kept buffering every couple of seconds - a minute into trying to watch it, I still wasn't halfway through the 20 second video. So I returned the study. I guess the researcher didn't pay for a fast enough server.

An excellent result from this: the researcher paid me the full value of the study for my time, despite my having returned it. They said they've approved "a bunch of returned submissions," which is a really classy move considering they presumably won't have got any data from them.

fabsaver

olliebean said:

olliebean said:

Trusting Online Information

By warwick.ac.uk

£3.47 • £9.20/hr

22 mins

 0 places

Just wondering if anyone else had problems with this one. The study was to involve watching a number of videos from TikTok, and answering questions about them. But I was unable to adequately view the first video, as it kept buffering every couple of seconds - a minute into trying to watch it, I still wasn't halfway through the 20 second video. So I returned the study. I guess the researcher didn't pay for a fast enough server.

An excellent result from this: the researcher paid me the full value of the study for my time, despite my having returned it. They said they've approved "a bunch of returned submissions," which is a really classy move considering they presumably won't have got any data from them.

That is an excellent result. It took me 45 minutes to complete it to the end. I don't think they'll have got much meaningful data from me, since it was impossible to understand what was being said in the videos.

Still I got an extra 4p as it was underpaying. I'll have to try not to spend it all at once 

Hydromel

fabsaver said:

olliebean said:

Trusting Online Information

By warwick.ac.uk

£3.47 • £9.20/hr

22 mins

 0 places

Just wondering if anyone else had problems with this one. The study was to involve watching a number of videos from TikTok, and answering questions about them. But I was unable to adequately view the first video, as it kept buffering every couple of seconds - a minute into trying to watch it, I still wasn't halfway through the 20 second video. So I returned the study. I guess the researcher didn't pay for a fast enough server.

Yes I had exactly the same issues.

The videos were constantly buffering and freezing. Each one was taking several minutes to play, even though they were all supposed to be less than a minute. It was impossible to understand anything that was being said because it was buffering so much.

Several times pressing the forward arrow after the influencer description just went straight to the questions page, without even showing me the video at all.

I didn't return it, as I persevered with it for far too long. 

I know it isn't my connection and like you say it must be the researchers server.

same, including both buffering and certain video load fail. also feel like i was entirely outside target demographic for content