Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Martico

I've always steered clear of the ones that require you to download extra software, but they keep popping up. Often hour-long ones (language studies) that aren't the best pay rate, but would be handy to get. What are people's experiences of surveys where you have to download extra software? 

elsien

I’ve downloaded inquisit a few times, then deleted after the study. Depends what download they’re asking for, and who the request is coming from, for me. 

olliebean

Martico said:

I've always steered clear of the ones that require you to download extra software, but they keep popping up. Often hour-long ones (language studies) that aren't the best pay rate, but would be handy to get. What are people's experiences of surveys where you have to download extra software? 

I've done some with the Inquisit Web Player software. It seems straightforward enough, installs easily and uninstalls easily afterwards, and having looked up what people think of it online the consensus is that it's trustworthy. I think all it does is allow all the resources for the study to be downloaded in advance, so it won't be affected by any internet issues whilst you're doing the study.

Martico

Quick, good pay, already approved. Looks like one slot left still as well

Exploring Language Markers in English - 1st Phase - 2nd Group

By Vassiliki Rentoumi

£2.00 • £41.38/hr

2 mins

1 place

In this study you will be required to fill in a questionnaire concerning your medical history. There will be also a mental health questionnaire. We assure you that all the information provided by you will be kept strictly confidential and will be used only for research purpose. This study is a part of a longitudinal study.

Devices you can use to take this study:

• Desktop
• Mobile
• Tablet

theonlywayisup

Sapindus said:

Don't forget that Prolific have an algorithm that gives you less studies ( or just the dregs of nearly full ones) the more you do.  I find the best thing I can do is to have a break of a few days, I seem to get loads more after that!  Also, now I have passed last year's total (and my anniversary is 1st April), I won't get out of bed for much less than a pound.  So it definitely feels like I'm doing fewer studies but better paying ones.  I did one of the AI "beat the bot" ones today in my lunch hour.  It is quite demanding but I like the challenge.   

Isn't that odd.  I find the opposite.  The more I do, the more I have.  Sometimes I cannot keep up and if I have a few days off, like this week, I get very little (or very low earning surveys).  

yupiteru

How memorable is a photo?

By Sofia Navarro

£5.00 • £8.57/hr

35 mins

0 places

In this study, you will view different photos of scenes and be asked to estimate how memorable the photos are. 

We anticipate that your total involvement will take about 35 minutes.

Luckily managed to get a place on this one, but did poorly on the first section and only managed to complete one page for the letter requested.

Completed the second 'memorable photo' part OK and even though I did not rush particularly, I finished the study in around 20 mins and it would have been a lot quicker, but I intentionally hung back towards the end so as to not finish too quickly, so not sure where the 35 mins figure came from.

Edit: Initially the average completion time stated 35 mins, but I now see that it has dropped to 22 mins so obviously others completed in a similar time.

theonlywayisup

Annoyingly have had this study crop up at least 20 times today, with one or nil places each time. Eventually got on it to be told there were no places (after several clicks).  Messaged the researcher my opinion and it is still there. I have dismissed it several times.  

Tommo2448

Hi, all. Long time lurker here and elsewhere on the boards, but had something new yesterday involving Prolific, so thought I’d ask if anyone can shed light.

I’ve been doing their surveys on and off since around the beginning of Covid – found it a useful little earner, as clearly others do as well.

But yesterday I had one survey ("Overcoming obstacles to donating to charities", I think). When I started, it opened in Google Forms (I use Chrome on a Mac, and was signed in), and I noticed it had picked up my Gmail address into the form. First time I had seen this, so returned the survey to Prolific without going further.

I have not yet raised this with the researcher or Prolific support. But I just wondered if anyone else had had this issue, and if so, if it is OK to proceed ? It does rather seem to fall into the category of “collecting personal information”.

The simple solution may of course be to sign out of Google when doing Prolific.

Cheers in advance !

MollyR

I haven't seen this particular survey, but I think it is definitely not on for the researcher to use a Google Form to harvest your Gmail address.  I think I would just have overwritten it with my Prolific e-mail (this is displayed just below your Prolific ID, and is always OK to hand out to researchers).  If it wouldn't let me overwrite the Gmail I would definitely close the survey and complain like mad!

theonlywayisup

Tommo2448 said:

Hi, all. Long time lurker here and elsewhere on the boards, but had something new yesterday involving Prolific, so thought I’d ask if anyone can shed light.

I’ve been doing their surveys on and off since around the beginning of Covid – found it a useful little earner, as clearly others do as well.

But yesterday I had one survey ("Overcoming obstacles to donating to charities", I think). When I started, it opened in Google Forms (I use Chrome on a Mac, and was signed in), and I noticed it had picked up my Gmail address into the form. First time I had seen this, so returned the survey to Prolific without going further.

I have not yet raised this with the researcher or Prolific support. But I just wondered if anyone else had had this issue, and if so, if it is OK to proceed ? It does rather seem to fall into the category of “collecting personal information”.

The simple solution may of course be to sign out of Google when doing Prolific.

Cheers in advance !

I had this today - possibly the same survey.  I have a gmail (which isn't my prolific email) and it picked that up.  But the gmail is a 'throwaway' email so I wasn't too bothered.