Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

~FlowerPot~

hmmm, just missed 2 others. and one of those was a £12.oo one !! 

willowcat27

[Deleted User] said:

willowcat27 said:

[Deleted User] said:

Not many surveys this morning

I've had two - both of which I returned, one didn't progress past the instruction page and one was so long and hard to understand I gave up after 10 minutes.  Maybe we'll both have a better afternoon.

Managed to get one just now 6.75 +2.20 bonus

That's great, well done.  I havn't seen one that high.  I've done 3 this afternoon, just small ones but all welcome, grand total today is £5.70!!

fly-catchers

Currently can’t login. Takes ages to go pass my password and them get “

PEC-AS-0003-x error

There was a problem with login verification. Please refresh and try again.” message. Tried a few times no difference. Currently on my iPad so will try my PC later..

elsien

I’ve been getting a problem with log in message on my iPhone But if I close the tab and then open a new one it seems to login okay

fly-catchers

No success so far even with new tab. Will try on the PC later..

Slinky

My total today is 15p!  I returned another for 30p plus bonus which required a change of browser which I couldn't be bothered with.

[Deleted User]

I have lost count but I have had about ten 'New Study available on Prolific' notifications today.  All had only one place left apart from a few with 4 or 5 places.  I clicked as quickly as I could and, on every occasion, the studies were all already full.

So no success today.

JGB1955

15 surveys so far this month - at least one every day but most of them low paying. 17.80

elsien

Wikipedia navigation study.

£0.10 • £0.76/hr

7 mins

Seriously? 

Sapindus

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. 

They have just paid out after 8 days.  No response to my comments and reporting on how awful the study was, and no bonus or adjustment for the extra time and distress caused.  But I was surprised they even paid out.  I'd said in my comments that if they rejected it due my slightly random clicking when faced with rapid images of people who were probably dying, I would be objecting to Prolific, so maybe that had something to do with it.