Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

MrsWhippy

Deleted_User - I was the speaker! I don't know if there were other groups playing at the same time. I found it really difficult to describe them at the beginning so apologies for that! The team's suggestions were great though and really helped me.

MrsWhippy

Sounds like Olliebean was a speaker too.

elsien

Just got an an £11 something study which I couldn’t do because I was right in the middle of cooking tea.
On a more positive note I’ve got a £3.95 bonus for £1 study.

[Deleted User]

MrsWhippy said:

Deleted_User - I was the speaker! I don't know if there were other groups playing at the same time. I found it really difficult to describe them at the beginning so apologies for that! The team's suggestions were great though and really helped me.

I think you (The Speaker) MrsWhippy, did really well - honestly.  I was quite slow and was really pleased not to run out of lime in responding to the descriptions.

Anyone (you or olliebean) taking on The Speaker role had to respond really quickly every time!

olliebean

I was a speaker too, but my name was also Bavi, so not the same group as Deleted_User.

elsien said:

Just got an an £11 something study which I couldn’t do because I was right in the middle of cooking tea.
On a more positive note I’ve got a £3.95 bonus for £1 study.

I did that one! I assume it was the same one, it said 60 minutes but actually took 74. Still farily decent pay, though, and it paid instantly.

So that's two very long studies I've put myself through today, two and a quarter hours in total, for a bit over 25 quid, assuming the bonuses for the first one are as promised.

yupiteru

A Survey in Decision-Making

By ugent.be

£2.40 • £12.03/hr

11 mins

0 places

This is a survey in decision-making. We will ask you to take decisions in several interactive situations.

Managed to get a place on this one which is a bit of a novelty lately.

There is a bonus available, but I doubt that will amount to much as I was not entirely clear what was going on from the instructions. 

Maybe I had not drunk enough tea yet as it was very early in the morning.

Perhaps my randomness will pay off

yupiteru

yupiteru said:

A Survey in Decision-Making

By ugent.be

£2.40 • £12.03/hr

11 mins

0 places

This is a survey in decision-making. We will ask you to take decisions in several interactive situations.

Managed to get a place on this one which is a bit of a novelty lately.

There is a bonus available, but I doubt that will amount to much as I was not entirely clear what was going on from the instructions. 

Maybe I had not drunk enough tea yet as it was very early in the morning.

Perhaps my randomness will pay off

Well, I have been paid for this study this morning but no bonus yet.  I think it is best not to hold my breath in anticipation

warby68

Anyone do a very long cooking one 3 days ago (and not die of boredom )?

Sapindus

Annotate all potential privacy-threatening content in given images.

By IIS Lab

I had to return a study this morning which was problematic.  The task was labelling parts of an image and it wouldn't let me progress to the next screen so I think I had failed to fill in all the boxes, but it was quite difficult to see which box referred to which label.  Not very well designed. The previous screen on personal characteristics also had badly placed tick boxes. Plus the photo itself was mildly offensive (anatomically explicit teddy bear).  Now previously I would have reported this study in the reasons for returning it, but no options to do so any more? WWYD?

It seems to only way to flag up a problematic study with Prolific now is AFTER you have contacted the researcher and waited a week.  Which in some cases may not be appropriate, for example to protect other participants from suffering similar problems.

yupiteru

Sapindus said:

Annotate all potential privacy-threatening content in given images.

By IIS Lab

I had to return a study this morning which was problematic.  The task was labelling parts of an image and it wouldn't let me progress to the next screen so I think I had failed to fill in all the boxes, but it was quite difficult to see which box referred to which label.  Not very well designed. The previous screen on personal characteristics also had badly placed tick boxes. Plus the photo itself was mildly offensive (anatomically explicit teddy bear).  Now previously I would have reported this study in the reasons for returning it, but no options to do so any more? WWYD?

It seems to only way to flag up a problematic study with Prolific now is AFTER you have contacted the researcher and waited a week.  Which in some cases may not be appropriate, for example to protect other participants from suffering similar problems.

I completed this one as well early this morning and I had the same problem as you, but I did manage to complete it in the end.

More by luck than judgement!

When I clicked the 'Loading the next image' box the tick boxes I had clicked in kept blanking out and after waiting and thinking about it and reading the instructions again, that I had copy and pasted, I was certain that I had not missed anything and when I went back to the study, the image had changed to the next one.

It was very clunky in operation and unclear to me what label applied to what part of the photo in some cases.

I initially thought it was my old laptop but more likely it was just a bad design, I almost returned it but by luck got it to work.

Took about 20 mins in the end after messing about at the beginning and I rated 4 images in total and I did not get the teddy bear image.

I got paid about 15 mins after completion.