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Makingabobor2 said:

olliebean said:

A study about grocery shopping

By Kwanho Suk

£0.25 • £21.95/hr

2 mins

 57 places

The first page of this one asked me to agree to a fairly standard handful of conditions; on doing so, the second page told me: "As you do not wish to participate in this study, please return your submission on Prolific by selecting the 'Stop without completing' button." Not much I could do about that, so I had to return it.

I got that message on that one as well.

A study about grocery shopping

By Kwanho Suk

£0.25 • £21.95/hr

2 mins

 57 places

 This is exactly what happened to me and I did not hear anything after contacting The Researcher.  I had no option other than to Return the Study.  I let the Researcher know but there was no option to let Prolific know why the Study had to be Returned. 

I am certain that I did not say that I did not wish to participate.

MollyR

Deleted_User said:

... there was no option to let Prolific know.

There is a Help form at https://participant-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/requests/new.

[Deleted User]

Thanks very much MollyR.  The option to explain used to be there immediately after Returning a Study but perhaps  this is one of  the recent changes.  Thank you for the link.

elsien

I am really liking the AI ones.  Just got £6.75 for having a 15 message conversation with an AI paid instantly. It did mention a bonus for high quality but not sure that I'll get that - they wanted you to give a thumbs up or thumbs down for the quality of the AI messages and I couldn't see the mechanism for doing that at all. I messaged but didn't get a reply before the study was finished. 

MrsWhippy

elsien said:

I am really liking the AI ones.  Just got £6.75 for having a 15 message conversation with an AI paid instantly. It did mention a bonus for high quality but not sure that I'll get that - they wanted you to give a thumbs up or thumbs down for the quality of the AI messages and I couldn't see the mechanism for doing that at all. I messaged but didn't get a reply before the study was finished. 

I did this one too Elsien. The only study I've had today. The thumbs up and down were next to the AI's response. They were greyed out so they were a bit difficult to see. Once you clicked on them they turned blue. I'm not sure about the bonus either but always hopeful.

[Deleted User]

I had just one Study yesterday (an unsuccessful one) MrsWhippy, then this one came up just now:

Have a conversation and generate training data for an AI

By Joe from Pie.

After choosing my topic and asking AI my first question this notice came up:  "If your partner doesn't respond within 5 minutes, the conversation will automatically end and you'll receive a link back to prolific will full payment."

I was so surprised when, after 5 minutes, and no response to my question, a link arrived on screen to take me back to Prolific.  There was a completion code and I was paid £6.75 immediately.  This has not happened before and, of course is very much appreciated.

Has anyone else also had this welcome surprise?

MrsWhippy

Deleted_User said:

I had just one Study yesterday (an unsuccessful one) MrsWhippy, then this one came up just now:

Have a conversation and generate training data for an AI

By Joe from Pie.

After choosing my topic and asking AI my first question this notice came up:  "If your partner doesn't respond within 5 minutes, the conversation will automatically end and you'll receive a link back to prolific will full payment."

I was so surprised when, after 5 minutes, and no response to my question, a link arrived on screen to take me back to Prolific.  There was a completion code and I was paid £6.75 immediately.  This has not happened before and, of course is very much appreciated.

Has anyone else also had this welcome surprise?

Deleted_User - that was a great result for you!  I had that notice come up several times but the AI always then responded within the 5 minutes so I had to do all 15 responses.

[Deleted User]

I was so surprised, MrsWhippy.  I've never known anything like it before and, £6.75, really generous.  When I was waiting for the five minutes to be over I was busy thinking what questions I could ask and, before I knew it, the link came up to go back to Prolific then the completion code and immediate acceptance and payment.

MrsWhippy

Deleted_User said:

I was so surprised, MrsWhippy.  I've never known anything like it before and, £6.75, really generous.  When I was waiting for the five minutes to be over I was busy thinking what questions I could ask and, before I knew it, the link came up to go back to Prolific then the completion code and immediate acceptance and payment.

I suppose the researcher is just as interested in comments the AI can't answer as the comments it can. 

These AI ones are great when they come up as they do pay generously and I enjoy doing them.

yupiteru

olgadapolga said:

yupiteru said:

I copy and paste as I go along in case of memory attention checks.

Do you have a smartphone? I take photos of the screens for attention checks. Just thought it might save you a bit of time 🙂

Thanks for the suggestion, but I prefer to use an old Dell laptop that I keep specifically for Prolific use.  This keeps everything separate from work etc.

I have a smartphone (Huawai P20) which has quite a large screen but with my 'sausage fingers' I struggle a bit with studies on it.

I prefer copy and pasting as I go along as this has a secondary benefit of it being very unlikely that I will be criticised for completing a study too fast .

It is not possible to copy and paste with some studies, so I then use the Firefox screenshot tool and save to the desktop.