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Makingabobor2

gdv4000 said:

Is there any way to turn off the Halloween cup of tea on the Waiting for Studies page. The flapping bats are driving me crazy!

Look underneath and it says...Disable animation

gdv4000

Makingabobor2 said:

gdv4000 said:

Is there any way to turn off the Halloween cup of tea on the Waiting for Studies page. The flapping bats are driving me crazy!

Look underneath and it says...Disable animation

Thanks! Looks like I failed an attention check....

MollyR

When the animation first appeared yesterday, it lacked the usual link to turn off the animation - so it's not necessarily your fault!

olliebean

gdv4000 said:

Makingabobor2 said:

gdv4000 said:

Is there any way to turn off the Halloween cup of tea on the Waiting for Studies page. The flapping bats are driving me crazy!

Look underneath and it says...Disable animation

Thanks! Looks like I failed an attention check....

To be fair, that option wasn't there when the animation first appeared.

JGB1955

JGB1955 said:

Sapindus said:

yupiteru said:

Decision-Making Survey

By pitt.edu

£2.50 • £9.97/hr

15 mins

207 places

This is an academic survey. 

You will be asked to photograph an object and upload it. Thus, before proceeding, please ensure you are in your home and have access to a smartphone. 

A bonus payment (of at least £0.5) will be granted to all valid responses.

Interesting idea for a study and I am glad that my flash works OK on my phone camera, as it was pitch black here when I took the photo of the object specified.

It did take a bit of hand acrobatics mind you, as you had to include one of your hands in the photo as well, I assume to prove that you did not download the image from the web, but as I discovered, my phone camera shutter button is not well placed for one handed operation.

It is 6.30 am at present and this is the second study completed this morning so far and I hope that the trend continues, as it has been very slow all week for me.

The only smartphone I have access to is my work one which I didn't really want to use, so I used my proper camera and it was easy enough to upload.

I have to say though, for reasons I can't share out of fairness to the researcher, that i really wish I had chosen something else to photograph!  Those who have done it can probably guess why!

I've had an email this morning - apparently I'm going to be paid £16 for a tatty sunhat that I spent £5 on originally.  That's a bit of a bonus!  (Shame it didn't go for the £100).

Hat collected by Royal Mail 2 weeks ago...£16 just gone into my account. No complaints from me!

willowcat27

JGB1955 said:

JGB1955 said:

Sapindus said:

yupiteru said:

Decision-Making Survey

By pitt.edu

£2.50 • £9.97/hr

15 mins

207 places

This is an academic survey. 

You will be asked to photograph an object and upload it. Thus, before proceeding, please ensure you are in your home and have access to a smartphone. 

A bonus payment (of at least £0.5) will be granted to all valid responses.

Interesting idea for a study and I am glad that my flash works OK on my phone camera, as it was pitch black here when I took the photo of the object specified.

It did take a bit of hand acrobatics mind you, as you had to include one of your hands in the photo as well, I assume to prove that you did not download the image from the web, but as I discovered, my phone camera shutter button is not well placed for one handed operation.

It is 6.30 am at present and this is the second study completed this morning so far and I hope that the trend continues, as it has been very slow all week for me.

The only smartphone I have access to is my work one which I didn't really want to use, so I used my proper camera and it was easy enough to upload.

I have to say though, for reasons I can't share out of fairness to the researcher, that i really wish I had chosen something else to photograph!  Those who have done it can probably guess why!

I've had an email this morning - apparently I'm going to be paid £16 for a tatty sunhat that I spent £5 on originally.  That's a bit of a bonus!  (Shame it didn't go for the £100).

Hat collected by Royal Mail 2 weeks ago...£16 just gone into my account. No complaints from me!

Brilliant - what a great result. Wonder what they are going to do with a load of hats!

theonlywayisup

JGB1955 said:

JGB1955 said:

Sapindus said:

yupiteru said:

Decision-Making Survey

By pitt.edu

£2.50 • £9.97/hr

15 mins

207 places

This is an academic survey. 

You will be asked to photograph an object and upload it. Thus, before proceeding, please ensure you are in your home and have access to a smartphone. 

A bonus payment (of at least £0.5) will be granted to all valid responses.

Interesting idea for a study and I am glad that my flash works OK on my phone camera, as it was pitch black here when I took the photo of the object specified.

It did take a bit of hand acrobatics mind you, as you had to include one of your hands in the photo as well, I assume to prove that you did not download the image from the web, but as I discovered, my phone camera shutter button is not well placed for one handed operation.

It is 6.30 am at present and this is the second study completed this morning so far and I hope that the trend continues, as it has been very slow all week for me.

The only smartphone I have access to is my work one which I didn't really want to use, so I used my proper camera and it was easy enough to upload.

I have to say though, for reasons I can't share out of fairness to the researcher, that i really wish I had chosen something else to photograph!  Those who have done it can probably guess why!

I've had an email this morning - apparently I'm going to be paid £16 for a tatty sunhat that I spent £5 on originally.  That's a bit of a bonus!  (Shame it didn't go for the £100).

Hat collected by Royal Mail 2 weeks ago...£16 just gone into my account. No complaints from me!

My £45 went in yesterday.  I did send the researcher a thank you. 

[Deleted User]

Motor Reaching Task

Hosted by berkeley.edu

I have just completed this task in 24 minutes.  The estimated time was 23 minutes so, for me, I was quite fast.  Although I enjoyed the task, having to track the blue ball, on a number of occasions I was asked to try faster.  I thought i was already being quite fast!  

Did anyone else do this task and find the same?

olliebean

Deleted_User said:

Motor Reaching Task

Hosted by berkeley.edu

I have just completed this task in 24 minutes.  The estimated time was 23 minutes so, for me, I was quite fast.  Although I enjoyed the task, having to track the blue ball, on a number of occasions I was asked to try faster.  I thought i was already being quite fast!  

Did anyone else do this task and find the same?

Not this one, but I have done tasks in the past where I've been asked to speed up despite already feeling I was going as fast as I could, and I suspect this is a deliberate ploy to put the participant under extra pressure, in order to study how that affects their performance.

[Deleted User]

That makes sense,  thanks olliebean.  I am generally quite slow but, on this one, I thought I was doing quite well and definitely going as fast as I possibly could.