Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

MollyR

See https://participant-help.prolific.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360021785374-Are-multiple-accounts-per-household-allowed.

elsien

elsien said:

If anyone gets this one, avoid like the plague. There is absolutely no chance of completing it in the time allowed - I timed out at less than half way through. I have reported it but am not holding my breath. 
 

Image Labeling

By Readability Team

$3.00 • $7.12/hr

25 mins

48 places

Further up to update this one. I have not had a reply from the researcher or  from prolific however the researcher has now paid me a bonus of four US dollars. I presume this is because of my follow-up complaint.

elsien

Has anyone tried the £6 iphone / heartbeat study? I  got part way through then the app stopped working although my phone meets the spec. From the slow rate at which the numbers were going down, I suspect I'm not the only one. Wasted half an hour to no effect though. 

Slinky

I'm now suspicious of ones with instructions in poor English, and things invoving downloading software. I had one on Sunday evening with some complicated download instructions that I returned. It was supposed to be 8 minutes. I looked on Monday, and the average completion time was nearly 23 minutes. A couple of others, I just couldn't understand their game scoring system and what they were trying to achieve.

Those image labeling ones with the low rates keep popping up. How long before they run out of participants where we've all been caught out?

ETA, is it just me, or do approvals for anything but the lowest paying surveys seem to be taking longer? Now it's £6 cashout as well it seems to take an age to reach target, and then of course you've got the dollar stuff won't go across from paypal until you've reached a dollar.

C_J

Did anyone else try this study? I was screened out of it (after completing quite a lot of demographic information), being told I did not qualify as I did not work for an organization and do not have a management position. Neither of these are true (I answered their questions about these two points correctly). I hope the researcher isn't harvesting personal and demographic information without having to pay for it .....

How do you rate your leadership?

By vu.nl

£0.75 • £23.89/hr

1 min

2 places

In this study you will read a workplace situation and then answer a few questions about this situation.

You can participate in this study if your are between 18 and 70 years old, work for for an organization at the time of the study, and hold a management position.

Devices you can use to take this study:

• Desktop
• Mobile
• Tablet

CliveOfIndia

C_J said:

Did anyone else try this study? I was screened out of it (after completing quite a lot of demographic information), being told I did not qualify as I did not work for an organization and do not have a management position. Neither of these are true (I answered their questions about these two points correctly). I hope the researcher isn't harvesting personal and demographic information without having to pay for it .....

How do you rate your leadership?

Exactly the same thing happened to me.  I submitted the study anyway, let's see what happens.  It's either just a glitch in their study, or as you say, trying to get information without paying for it.

sebloak

Slinky said:

ETA, is it just me, or do approvals for anything but the lowest paying surveys seem to be taking longer? Now it's £6 cashout as well it seems to take an age to reach target, and then of course you've got the dollar stuff won't go across from paypal until you've reached a dollar.

I noticed it too, seems to be more going to the 21 day payout deadline.

silvercar

C_J said:

Did anyone else try this study? I was screened out of it (after completing quite a lot of demographic information), being told I did not qualify as I did not work for an organization and do not have a management position. Neither of these are true (I answered their questions about these two points correctly). I hope the researcher isn't harvesting personal and demographic information without having to pay for it .....

How do you rate your leadership?

By vu.nl

£0.75 • £23.89/hr

1 min

2 places

In this study you will read a workplace situation and then answer a few questions about this situation.

You can participate in this study if your are between 18 and 70 years old, work for for an organization at the time of the study, and hold a management position.

Devices you can use to take this study:

• Desktop
• Mobile
• Tablet

Same here. I have messaged the researcher. 

Mum161111

"A study on team behavior (Pilot II)" 

Jenna_Appleseed very kindly redirected me here because I did not post on the correct Forum. After exhaustive unsuccessful attempts I  was eventually asked to Return this Study by the Researcher – this was after I had been directed to click on a link and received a completion code.  

Afterwards I could not remove Parsec from my computer or the icon from my Desktop - it kept saying it was open and I could not find a way to close it, delete and "get rid of it/uninstall it permanently."  CliveOfIndia, from a different MSE Forum, kindly helped to delete it.

I regret ever attempting to participate in this Study.   It may be a coincidence but ever since participating have had one problem after another and I wondered if Parsec was responsible. There was the frozen “orange” screen (resolved with help from The Techie Forum) Participants and now I can’t open emails or documents on my Windows 10 desktop normally. I found a way round that by right clicking and opening in a new window. It may be a co-incidence but it has been quite frustrating. Malware bytes and Windows Defender did not find any problems.

Now that I am on the correct Forum I wonder, and it would be helpful to know, if anyone else has completed this Study successfully, with the Parsec download, and managed it problem free?

Thank you again to the helpful Participants from the other Forum.

Value

Sorry @Mum161111 but I didn't do this study. I don't do any which require downloads.