Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

MollyR

I was offered that, but just rejected it;  there is no way that anybody is going to know three other people's Prolific IDs!  I think the researcher just doesn't know how Prolific operates.

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olliebean said:

Crisis Research Copy

By ceibs.edu

£0.30 • £10.80/hr

1 min

0 places

There is only several simple questions in the survey, and you need to provide 3 Prolific IDs of your co-workers' if you consent to participate.

Is this allowed? It sounds like a chain letter by means of a study. If I had three co-workers, I wouldn't feel comfortable asking them for their Prolific IDs. (I doubt many people even have three co-workers with Prolific accounts, let alone are aware of it.)

I clicked on this one this morning only paying attention to the one minute estimated time.  As soon as I read the requirement to provide 3 other's Prolific ID's I Returned the Study.

It didn't  sound 'right' to me.

elsien

HR one. If anyone is wondering why it won’t progress past the picture of the aubergine, it’s because they’re looking for eggplant.

olliebean

Consumer Preference Study

By Josh Chang

£0.11 • £6.45/hr

7 mins

226 places

Didn't realise until after I'd done it how underpaid this one was, because I took Prolific's quoted hourly rate at its word, but clearly something has gone wrong here, because 11p for 7 minutes is definitely not £6.45/hr (more like 94p/hr). I'm annoyed at Prolific for misleading me like this.

Ivana_B_Rich

olliebean said:

Consumer Preference Study

By Josh Chang

£0.11 • £6.45/hr

7 mins

226 places

Didn't realise until after I'd done it how underpaid this one was, because I took Prolific's quoted hourly rate at its word, but clearly something has gone wrong here, because 11p for 7 minutes is definitely not £6.45/hr (more like 94p/hr). I'm annoyed at Prolific for misleading me like this.

I've reported this for underpaying.

olliebean

The pay rate is now showing as 88p/hr, which is closer to the mark. The researcher's estimated time was 1 minute, which was very obviously not realistic for the number of questions, so it seems they were trying to game the system to get away with underpaying.

MollyR

olliebean said:

Crisis Research Copy

By ceibs.edu

£0.30 • £10.80/hr

1 min

0 places

There is only several simple questions in the survey, and you need to provide 3 Prolific IDs of your co-workers' if you consent to participate.

This came up again this morning.  I reported it, as demanding personal information.

theonlywayisup

There seems to be a huge amount of AI studies available.   There were 8 available last night, I managed to get three, other half got two.   They ranged in price from £3.75 to £11.  I've never seen that many studies at once :-)

MollyR

MARKETING 5.0: Marketing and Technology.
By flame.edu.in
£1.75 • £7.55/hr
13 mins

This was a shockingly bad survey, done through GoogleDocs (which meant it displayed my non-Prolific e-mail address, although I have confidence that Google did not pass that address to the researcher).  Many of the questions were incomprehensible;  they were about "This brand" and "This app" and so forth, none of which had been defined.  And at the end I was told to enter a completion code in a form field on the page - which said it was not valid.  I messaged the researcher, but half an hour later I had had no response and the study was about to time out;  so I returned it as NOCODE, and reported it to Prolific as impossible to complete because of the error on the last page (of which I took a screenshot, in case it is needed as evidence).

Racheljaa

Hi, did anyone else do the study on perception #1061, as they are refusing to pay so I'm going to complain. I've done over a thousand studies and never had a rejection so I think they're trying it on.