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  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,611 Ambassador
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    edited 30 January 2024 at 3:27PM
    silvercar said:
    I'm stuck with 

    Watch a video and answer questions

    There is a one second sound check and I can't understand the word. Anyone have this and can help?
    I'm struggling too - not cat and not cap - any other suggestions?
    I've tried cap, cat, car, cow, cam, can, can't, clown, count. Even played it back at half speed and nothing is clear.
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  • Blue_Mermaid
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    edited 30 January 2024 at 3:27PM
    silvercar said:
    I'm stuck with 

    Watch a video and answer questions

    There is a one second sound check and I can't understand the word. Anyone have this and can help?
    I'm struggling too - not cat and not cap - any other suggestions?

    Its_time said:
    I've just tried to do a survery on animal sounds, told to wear headphones  but the beep they said to look for was not there.  I was not allowed to go any further in the survey and did not get paid for any of my time.  Is this usual? The beep really was not there  :/ maybe my headphones were not compatible.
    I am having the same problem. I am stuck at the example beep and can't hear it, so haven't proceeded any Retired_Saver said:
    silvercar said:
    I'm stuck with 

    Watch a video and answer questions

    There is a one second sound check and I can't understand the word. Anyone have this and can help?
    I'm struggling too - not cat and not cap - any other suggestions?

    silvercar said:
    I'm stuck with 

    Watch a video and answer questions

    There is a one second sound check and I can't understand the word. Anyone have this and can help?
    I'm struggling too - not cat and not cap - any other suggestions?

    further yet. Waiting for a reply from the researcher. Might have to return study it if they don't reply, or I will be timed out by Prolific. I thought the same thing that it must be my headphones, so tried listening through the speakers of my laptop and still couldn't hear it. Then thought, maybe something wrong with my hearing! It does say it's a faint beep but I can't hear it at all! Sorry you had same problem. Did you contact the researcher? Maybe it's a problem at their end if both of us experienced it. I don't have any hearing problems as far as I know.
    Same here and I too have messaged researcher. 
  • Slinky
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    I couldn't get it either. Tried cat cap cab can. Returned it.
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  • I hat that one too. Glad I'm not the only one who couldn't get it. I tried everything I could think of. Tried it with earphones and without. When I returned it. I said it was the accent that was bad and not my hearing
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  • C_J
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    I tried all of those words too (even slowed down the speed of the speech to see if it helped, but it didn't). I have returned it and complained to Prolific.
  • I received this message from The Researcher and, although I had Returned the Study, I was paid the 78 pence:

    Dear participant, this is totally due to an error on our end, and we will compensate as promised. Very sorry for the frustrating experience."
  • Just failed to join a study because "This study only allows -1 participant at a time, and is currently full." How does that work? Do they only accept participants from antimatter universes?
  • Blue_Mermaid
    Blue_Mermaid Posts: 93 Forumite
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    edited 30 January 2024 at 3:27PM
    I received this message from The Researcher and, although I had Returned the Study, I was paid the 78 pence:

    " Dear participant, this is totally due to an error on our end, and we will compensate as promised. Very sorry for the frustrating experience."
    That's good. Pleased for you. I haven't received a reply from the researcher and haven't been paid either (returned the study). Has anyone else received a reply or been paid apart from Retired Saver? 
  • [Deleted User]
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    edited 13 September 2023 at 7:56PM
    I hope you hear soon, Blue_Mermaid.  I hoped for a reply but did not expect to be paid so the 78 pence was an unexpected bonus.  Since it was "An error at their end I hope you, and the others, hear soon and also receive payment.

    I don't suppose we'll ever find out what the word was supposed to be.
  • Blue_Mermaid
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    edited 30 January 2024 at 3:27PM
    I hope you hear soon, Blue_Mermaid.  I hoped for a reply but did not expect to be paid so the 78 pence was an unexpected bonus.  Since it was "An error at their end I hope you, and the others, hear soon and also receive payment.

    I don't suppose we'll ever find out what the word was supposed to be.
    Thank you Retired_Saver. 

    After reading what you said, I messaged them again and asked if they could reply to my previous message. Not holding my breath but you never know.

    I am curious to know what the word was but I guess, as you say, we will never know, unless they tell one of the other participants who messaged them. I think it was probably cat but maybe there was a bug in their software that said it was incorrect, when, in fact, it wasn't.
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