Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

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Just cashed out now - no problem with it.

Vintage67

willowcat27 said:

When you have completed a study that you later find out is underpaying - do Prolific do anything about it, like force them to give you an adjustment/bonus payment or do they just get away with it? 
Only reason I ask is that I did a 70 minute study yesterday for £6 and when I looked back today that works out at £5.21 an hour.  In the blog section it says that minimum payment is £6 per hour.  Is that just a guideline for researchers or is it enforced.

Yes, Prolific pause the study (if still active) and ask the researcher to make an adjustment to bring the payment up to at least £6/hour. 

https://researcher-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/articles/360019777180-How-do-I-resolve-underpaying-studies-

Also, you can report the study as underpaying by clicking the 'sad face' icon on the study's entry on the Submission page.

willowcat27

Vintage67 said:

willowcat27 said:

When you have completed a study that you later find out is underpaying - do Prolific do anything about it, like force them to give you an adjustment/bonus payment or do they just get away with it? 
Only reason I ask is that I did a 70 minute study yesterday for £6 and when I looked back today that works out at £5.21 an hour.  In the blog section it says that minimum payment is £6 per hour.  Is that just a guideline for researchers or is it enforced.

Yes, Prolific pause the study (if still active) and ask the researcher to make an adjustment to bring the payment up to at least £6/hour. 

https://researcher-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/articles/360019777180-How-do-I-resolve-underpaying-studies-

Also, you can report the study as underpaying by clicking the 'sad face' icon on the study's entry on the Submission page.

Thanks for that - I'll have a read of the article and click on the sad face. Many thanks for the info.

elsien

Is there anyone else finding most of the survey are now desktop tablet? Which is a bit of a nuisance because generally I pick them up on my phone.

I understand why some of them have to be desk top if there’s lots of information to read or they are testing reaction times or whatever. 

But the general question ones seem to be moving to that as a default as well.

MollyR

You can set in your profile which types of surveys you want to receive - I don't like doing them on my phone (with arthritic fingers), so I only accept studies which are available on my desktop.

elsien

I want as many as I can get, it’s just that one that would previously have been easily accessible on the phone now seem to be saying desktop only. 

Which generally means reserving them and then trying to crank up my ancient laptop before the reservation runs out.

olliebean

Just thinking about going to bed, and up pops an underpaying 86 minute study called "Dots Game"... Yeah, I think I'll pass on that.

[Deleted User]

I had a survey where I had to find nouns from sentences as part of a game, I did half the sentences and then skipped sentences just to see how many sentences were left thinking i could go back then the game ended.  Will I still get paid

MollyR

Who knows?  It is the researcher that you should be asking.

[Deleted User]

Shall I tell him or leave it and hope I get away with it