Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Cefca

Slinky said:

theonlywayisup said:

Slinky said:

Did anybody do the Investigatig Face processing? I got accepted then it fell over when I tried to start the study and I had to return it. The hourly rate looks wildly wrong so I'm wondering if there's a technical problem.

Got this and returned it too.  Same issue, from memory it was something ridiculous on the hourly rate ( like £245 an hour).  Something seriously wrong. 

Looks like everybody had the same problem, average completion time is 1 minute. Pain really as I'm guessing when they sort it out and re-release it, those of us who had it before will be excluded because we've returned it. And it was £7.50.

It shouldn't make a difference to your eligibility for the new survey if you returned this one.

Miró

Have the AI surveys paying £15 a pop come to an end now?  I last had one at lunchtime on Saturday.  Anyone had one since?

Sp8

I've not seen any of those since Saturday either, but there weren't any until Tuesday afternoon for me last week ..so you never know they might be back. Seems slow going without them! 

Taloulah

Saturday afternoon for me too. But to he honest, Monday and Tuesdays were always quiet. I rarely got any until 4pm earliest on a Tuesday. I really enjoy them so hoping there's more to come 

Slinky

I missed out on one yesterday, first time I'd ever seen one.

Taloulah

Think that was a different AI study 

Sapindus

Stay Leave Decision Game

By Toronto Decision Neuroscience Lab

£9.35 • £7.89/hr

71 mins

0 places

Please make sure you have 60 minutes of uninterrupted time before starting the study. There will be 3 parts to this study. You will first play a series of games with different partners. During the game, you will be given the option to stay with the same partner or find a new partner (~40 minutes). Then you will complete another short task (~ 10 minutes). Finally, you will be directed to a webpage to complete a survey answering questions about yourself (~10 minutes). 

Absolutely furious about this one, to the point of waking up in the night and nearly coming downstairs to send another message to the researcher.

Off to a bad start with a high-contrast colour scheme which was uncomfortable to look at.

Instruction screen got stuck for ten minutes.  Three times.

Couldn't exit full screen (study ran in Inquisit) to message the researcher or even quit the study.

Multiple images of graphic violence including torture and death.  No possibility of exiting or pausing the study (see above).  Was asked to process each image and answer a question in two seconds (felt like less).  Was asked to view the images again and say whether "the person uses both hands".  Sorry but when someone is bound hand and foot and being brutally beaten, or you can't even see their hands, how do you define that?

I don't recall that the consent screen (which didn't appear until partway into the task) mentioned the triggering images, and there certainly wasn't a debrief to advise me on sources of help if I'd been affected.

£9.35 for over an hour and half, considering the distressing nature of the images, is woefully underpaid. 

Slinky

Wow, what a horrible experience. No doubt you reported it, hopefully others did too. Sorry you had this happen to you.

allison445

A dataset for privacy-aware online proctoring of students

By student.uts.edu.au

Manged to get the last space in this one which was a good felling until I realized it was another study not using the screening process correctly I had to return as the criteria stated you need to be 18 to 40 years of age I am not 😪

theonlywayisup

Sapindus said:

Stay Leave Decision Game

By Toronto Decision Neuroscience Lab

£9.35 • £7.89/hr

71 mins

0 places

Please make sure you have 60 minutes of uninterrupted time before starting the study. There will be 3 parts to this study. You will first play a series of games with different partners. During the game, you will be given the option to stay with the same partner or find a new partner (~40 minutes). Then you will complete another short task (~ 10 minutes). Finally, you will be directed to a webpage to complete a survey answering questions about yourself (~10 minutes). 

Absolutely furious about this one, to the point of waking up in the night and nearly coming downstairs to send another message to the researcher.

Off to a bad start with a high-contrast colour scheme which was uncomfortable to look at.

Instruction screen got stuck for ten minutes.  Three times.

Couldn't exit full screen (study ran in Inquisit) to message the researcher or even quit the study.

Multiple images of graphic violence including torture and death.  No possibility of exiting or pausing the study (see above).  Was asked to process each image and answer a question in two seconds (felt like less).  Was asked to view the images again and say whether "the person uses both hands".  Sorry but when someone is bound hand and foot and being brutally beaten, or you can't even see their hands, how do you define that?

I don't recall that the consent screen (which didn't appear until partway into the task) mentioned the triggering images, and there certainly wasn't a debrief to advise me on sources of help if I'd been affected.

£9.35 for over an hour and half, considering the distressing nature of the images, is woefully underpaid. 

Goodness, what a horrid experience.  Do report it.  Sorry to hear it had that effect on you.