Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

faerielight

I had a horrible one a few days ago where i had to watch short videos and answer questions on it..the last video was of a vet checking a badly abused and starved dog who's eye was so damaged it was about to be removed.. i found this so traumatic to watch and had no prior  warning of upsetting videos, and  all the other videos were very benign.. i reported it to prolific, they said they had sent the resercher guidelines on prolific.. it has put me off a bit, as I found it really hard to get the image out of my mind. 

John1963

DaveQ said:

Yes....I have done this with similar results.  First time I got through 4 or so rounds, then no further matching. Second time, never got a match.  Each time I got £2 compensation though.

I had similar issue played one match then sat watching the screen for 40 odd minutes.  Wrote to the researcher and was given a completion code.  Also received the £2 but the study is still sitting in my submission list.  Will be interesting to se if the £4.50 is awarded as it's still shown as due, let's see...

willowcat27

John1963 said:

DaveQ said:

Yes....I have done this with similar results.  First time I got through 4 or so rounds, then no further matching. Second time, never got a match.  Each time I got £2 compensation though.

I had similar issue played one match then sat watching the screen for 40 odd minutes.  Wrote to the researcher and was given a completion code.  Also received the £2 but the study is still sitting in my submission list.  Will be interesting to se if the £4.50 is awarded as it's still shown as due, let's see...

Good news on this one - I've just had my submission approved and the payment of the original £4.50 + £2 compensation.  

theonlywayisup

Rejected this tonight.  Another app download.  And fairly poor grammar/language.  

Just to say we did download on a spare phone and the app was all in Chinese language.  

olliebean

willowcat27 said:

Academic study

By univie.ac.at

£4.50 • £5.29/hr     51 mins     11 places

Anyone else do this one at lunchtime today.  It was one of those that 'paired' you with another participant to select options that may or may not win you points which would be converted into a bonus.  After the first round it then came up with a banner telling you to wait as it was trying to pair you with another participant.  This never happened and eventually a message came up saying it could not pair you up and that the round was now over and to move on to the next round.  The same thing happened over and over.  Eventually a page came up saying that the submission should be returned as I could not be paired.  This was now an hour of my time.  I received a reply back from the researcher asking me if I had left the screen (which I hadn't).  I've heard nothing since.

I just did this one, and managed to complete it. It was very tedious, though, and took a few minutes longer than the 45 minutes covered by the base payment. However I was very pleased to earn a £12.06 bonus. And then somewhat less pleased when informed that the £4.50 base payment would be subtracted from my bonus, so £12.06 will be my total payment, not an additional payment to the £4.50. That little detail wasn't revealed in advance. Still a decent payout for a little under 50 minutes, though.

I think the main issue with the study for people who haven't managed to complete it is that the main section of the study is supposed to take 30 minutes (or 30 matches, whichever is quicker) - but they way this is measured is it ends the first time a match ends past the 30 minute mark. So this is dependent on actually playing a match that ends soon after the 30 minute mark. If you wait past the 30 minute mark without being paired, so without playing a match, then you could potentially be waiting much longer than 30 minutes.

JGB1955

olliebean said:

willowcat27 said:

Academic study

By univie.ac.at

£4.50 • £5.29/hr     51 mins     11 places

Anyone else do this one at lunchtime today.  It was one of those that 'paired' you with another participant to select options that may or may not win you points which would be converted into a bonus.  After the first round it then came up with a banner telling you to wait as it was trying to pair you with another participant.  This never happened and eventually a message came up saying it could not pair you up and that the round was now over and to move on to the next round.  The same thing happened over and over.  Eventually a page came up saying that the submission should be returned as I could not be paired.  This was now an hour of my time.  I received a reply back from the researcher asking me if I had left the screen (which I hadn't).  I've heard nothing since.

I just did this one, and managed to complete it. It was very tedious, though, and took a few minutes longer than the 45 minutes covered by the base payment. However I was very pleased to earn a £12.06 bonus. And then somewhat less pleased when informed that the £4.50 base payment would be subtracted from my bonus, so £12.06 will be my total payment, not an additional payment to the £4.50. That little detail wasn't revealed in advance. Still a decent payout for a little under 50 minutes, though.

I think the main issue with the study for people who haven't managed to complete it is that the main section of the study is supposed to take 30 minutes (or 30 matches, whichever is quicker) - but they way this is measured is it ends the first time a match ends past the 30 minute mark. So this is dependent on actually playing a match that ends soon after the 30 minute mark. If you wait past the 30 minute mark without being paired, so without playing a match, then you could potentially be waiting much longer than 30 minutes.

I completed the same survey this morning - was about to return it (having got bored of nothing happening for 15 minutes) then ended up with the £4.50 (paid immediately) and £1.71 bonus to come.  I'm never going to get very far with the bonuses because I'm happy to share them with the (fictional) other player!  In the end it took less than an hour but was SO tedious waiting to re-join the game.  Managed to eat my breakfast and load the washing machine whilst waiting... and waiting... and waiting!

whosthatrubi

olliebean said:

willowcat27 said:

Academic study

By univie.ac.at

£4.50 • £5.29/hr     51 mins     11 places

Anyone else do this one at lunchtime today.  It was one of those that 'paired' you with another participant to select options that may or may not win you points which would be converted into a bonus.  After the first round it then came up with a banner telling you to wait as it was trying to pair you with another participant.  This never happened and eventually a message came up saying it could not pair you up and that the round was now over and to move on to the next round.  The same thing happened over and over.  Eventually a page came up saying that the submission should be returned as I could not be paired.  This was now an hour of my time.  I received a reply back from the researcher asking me if I had left the screen (which I hadn't).  I've heard nothing since.

I just did this one, and managed to complete it. It was very tedious, though, and took a few minutes longer than the 45 minutes covered by the base payment. However I was very pleased to earn a £12.06 bonus. And then somewhat less pleased when informed that the £4.50 base payment would be subtracted from my bonus, so £12.06 will be my total payment, not an additional payment to the £4.50. That little detail wasn't revealed in advance. Still a decent payout for a little under 50 minutes, though.

I think the main issue with the study for people who haven't managed to complete it is that the main section of the study is supposed to take 30 minutes (or 30 matches, whichever is quicker) - but they way this is measured is it ends the first time a match ends past the 30 minute mark. So this is dependent on actually playing a match that ends soon after the 30 minute mark. If you wait past the 30 minute mark without being paired, so without playing a match, then you could potentially be waiting much longer than 30 minutes.

I did this one, 50 minutes in (after over 10 matches) I got an error and couldn't complete it. Had to nocode it, sent the researcher a message but no response yet.

Value

A survey on inflation and house price forecast

By ucl.ac.uk
£1.00 • £7.02/hr
8 mins

This study asks for your whole postcode which Prolific doesn't allow as it's potentially personally identifiable information. Prolific allows the first half of your postcode to be collected but not the second half. The study doesn't let you proceed if you enter the second half as something like XXX so I entered a random number and random letters but have messaged the researcher to explain this.

silvercar

I'm seeing a few studies talking of mturk. Has anyone tried surveys through them? Do they pay as well? Is there any barrier to being on both?

MollyR

I took a look at the FAQs  at https://www.mturk.com/worker/help.  Just the "Tax Information and Identity Verification for Non-U.S., International Workers" looks pretty daunting!