Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

elsien

Because I work full-time, and there’s very few studies I can do during breaks at work I tend more towards £40 a month.

The difference with other survey sites is that you have to grab the surveys as soon as they pop up. They rarely hang around and if they do there is  generally a reason.

Martico

I don't think they do referrals, I just go through https://app.prolific.com/
There's often a wait to get onto their list. 
General advice is to answer all questions they put to you honestly and openly (it's all anonymous) and the surveys that you'll be invited to should fit your demographics and experience. They're all academic surveys, can't be gamed, so just be true to yourself and you'll continue to be selected.  

Superhoopza

Martico said:

I don't think they do referrals, I just go through https://app.prolific.com/
There's often a wait to get onto their list. 
General advice is to answer all questions they put to you honestly and openly (it's all anonymous) and the surveys that you'll be invited to should fit your demographics and experience. They're all academic surveys, can't be gamed, so just be true to yourself and you'll continue to be selected.  

Okay the only reason for asking about referrals was because on the second post on this thread there's a (broken) link to a referrals thread. So that's not a thing any more.

Oh you have to join a list to get on. How long does that usually take? That's annoying.

Martico

It varies - when I joined (July 2022?) it was around ten days

Superhoopza

Martico said:

It varies - when I joined (July 2022?) it was around ten days

Thanks

I'll proceed without a deferral. Apologies then to silvercar if it turns out I could of used a deferral code.

Superhoopza

Yeah I didn't get asked for a deferral:

You're on the waitlist!

We'll send you an email when we're taking new participants.

Are there any other sites that work like this that people would recommend?

MollyR

"We turned off our participant referral scheme back in 2019. Our aim was, and still is, to offer a high quality participant pool with a great range of diversity. We noticed that referrals were working against this, creating larger groups of the same demographics. In order to encourage balance, we turned off the referral scheme."

https://participant-help.prolific.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4407404137746-Can-I-refer-a-friend-to-participate-on-Prolific

Incidentally, https://participant-help.prolific.com/hc/en-gb/sections/360003658680--Frequently-Asked-Questions is a very useful source of information about how Prolific works.

silvercar

Superhoopza said:

Thanks all.

As a thank you to @silvercar for being the first to respond (thank you to all 3 of you), if you're able to send me a link, I'll use yours as a referral code.

£40 a month sounds alright to be fair. Maybe on my commutes I can do more.

There are no referrals, but thank you.

Superhoopza

Are there other sites I can join in the meantime people would recommend?

Superhoopza

Guessing this is the only one worth signing up to from people's experience?