Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

elsien

Lots of well paying ones today. Unfortunately due to work I couldn’t do any of them.

The last survey I did where I thought it was a pretend person turned out to be real - I messaged the researcher to ask. 

55ryan

DontBringBertie said:

Game with ***Bonus Payment*** Aug 19 

By rsm.nl 

£1.00 • £4.83/hr 

12 mins

 0 places

Did anyone do this one? I thought it was pretty clear from the beginning it was one of those ‘pretend you’re making decisions with another participant who is actually a computer’ ones.

Yes I did that one. 'Most' of these 'you will be connected to another participant' are fake.  I did have an audio one like this some time ago that was real.  As usual though it took longer than the allotted time.  

55ryan

clearancer said:

I’ve had my first rejection (Household Towels) for failing the attention check question 

I did find out an interesting thing a few months ago that researchers could block/filter out anyone that has had a rejection or a number of rejections. That isn't something I agree with if the former. After all, long term users who have been doing Prolific for 5 years or more could have one rejection and not be allowed to do a particularly study.  Someone told me the other day they had done 8000 studies and just one rejection. It would be unfair for someone experienced as that to lose out over a newbie who has just joined.

Rejections happen. Even if you are honest, paying attention. I had one for doing it too quickly yet the study was watching a video you couldn't skip if you wanted to. I did complain but heard nothing from the researcher or prolific.  Am I missing out on some studies....probably, but  the thing with Prolific, you would never know for sure how many.    

MollyR

Remember that Prolific researchers do not all want long-term, experienced respondents;  some of them are looking for "naive" respondents who wouldn't know how to game a study if they wanted to.

Vintage67

Researchers can filter by the approval/rejection percentage (but not the actual number of rejections) ,  so 1 rejection won't make much difference if you've had 100 or more approvals. Prolific do ban participants who get too many rejections though,  there's no published number but it's thought to be somewhere between 5-10% rejection rate. 

olliebean

Testing User Experience of Reading Article on the Web

By Seon Gyeom Kim

£1.34 • £9.89/hr

8 mins

 78 places

After the intro page, it showed a meaningless graph with a headline overlaid, and no way to proceed further with the study. Tried it on three different browsers, with the same result, so just wasted my time. Returned for nothing. I messaged the researcher explaining the problem, by which time I'd spent more time than the study was supposed to take, but I very much doubt I'll get any sort of compensation. Did anyone else have similar problems with this one, or manage to get through it successfully?

Martico

I got through it OK, but the text was so small. Had the same problem as you but solved it by scrolling down with the mouse wheel. 

olliebean

Martico said:

I got through it OK, but the text was so small. Had the same problem as you but solved it by scrolling down with the mouse wheel. 

I tried that but there wasn't anything to scroll down to.

[Deleted User]

Decision making simulation

By Yan Bai

• £2.50 • £7.91/hr

• 18 mins

• 11 places

I persevered with this Study  in Firefox Browser (as required) although it was always slow to move on to the next (20 rounds in total) round in the Study.  After round 8 a Gateway error  ("504 Gateway Time out.") showed up and I was not able to proceed.  

 I tried refreshing the page and contacting the Researcher but, after 30+ minutes and additional time hoping to hear from the Researcher, I eventually Returned the Study.  

Has anyone else done this Study and managed to completion without a Gateway error?  Although it seems to be a technical problem  I can't think of any other reason.

willowcat27

Deleted_User said:

Decision making simulation

By Yan Bai

• £2.50 • £7.91/hr

• 18 mins

• 11 places

I persevered with this Study  in Firefox Browser (as required) although it was always slow to move on to the next (20 rounds in total) round in the Study.  After round 8 a Gateway error  ("504 Gateway Time out.") showed up and I was not able to proceed.  

 I tried refreshing the page and contacting the Researcher but, after 30+ minutes and additional time hoping to hear from the Researcher, I eventually Returned the Study.  

Has anyone else done this Study and managed to completion without a Gateway error?  Although it seems to be a technical problem  I can't think of any other reason.

Yes I did this study - although for me it was at 11:00 this morning.  I also used Firefox but I had no errors.  It worked well for me and quick.  No bonus though.  It was one of those that said it would randomly pick a round and if you had won money in that round it would be paid as a bonus and surprise surprise it picked the round where no money had been won.