Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

silvercar

willowcat27 said:

Isn't it just so so obvious that when you get a study saying that they will randomly pick one of the options of a game or whatever it is that you have just completed and the outcome of that one game will be your bonus payment that the option they pick just happens to be the one you got a zero score on....just did a decision making study with 20 screens, on 19 of them I had an extra payment, one of them I didn't, and which one was 'randomly' picked, that's right the zero score.  Coincidence...hmmm. 

Also had that study. I’m sort of thinking your 19 correct out of 20 was unbelievably good compared to the random expectation of 3 or 4 matches and maybe that featured in the selection.

willowcat27

silvercar said:

willowcat27 said:

Isn't it just so so obvious that when you get a study saying that they will randomly pick one of the options of a game or whatever it is that you have just completed and the outcome of that one game will be your bonus payment that the option they pick just happens to be the one you got a zero score on....just did a decision making study with 20 screens, on 19 of them I had an extra payment, one of them I didn't, and which one was 'randomly' picked, that's right the zero score.  Coincidence...hmmm. 

Also had that study. I’m sort of thinking your 19 correct out of 20 was unbelievably good compared to the random expectation of 3 or 4 matches and maybe that featured in the selection.

Oh no,  it wasn't unbelievably good, I admit I wasn't giving honest answers.  I simply forgot on the first one and made a mistake. I was given instructions on my one to put what I wanted and was told that I didn't need to be honest if I chose not too.

DiamondLil

DiamondLil said:

MollyR said:

It's absolutely as it has always been for me, in Firefox on Windows.

Oh ? I'm Firefox on Windows too... perhaps it's me then.

DiamondLil said:

Oh lordy... today the page has increased in size by approx 30%.

I've shrunk the page to fit my screen but it's still too wide so now I have to scroll across to see my account, messages and rewards info.

Weird... today it's back to normal.

DiamondLil

willowcat27 said:

Isn't it just so so obvious that when you get a study saying that they will randomly pick one of the options of a game or whatever it is that you have just completed and the outcome of that one game will be your bonus payment that the option they pick just happens to be the one you got a zero score on....just did a decision making study with 20 screens, on 19 of them I had an extra payment, one of them I didn't, and which one was 'randomly' picked, that's right the zero score.  Coincidence...hmmm. 

Yes, me too. The very same study.

olliebean

DiamondLil said:

willowcat27 said:

Isn't it just so so obvious that when you get a study saying that they will randomly pick one of the options of a game or whatever it is that you have just completed and the outcome of that one game will be your bonus payment that the option they pick just happens to be the one you got a zero score on....just did a decision making study with 20 screens, on 19 of them I had an extra payment, one of them I didn't, and which one was 'randomly' picked, that's right the zero score.  Coincidence...hmmm. 

Yes, me too. The very same study.

I did the same, except without missing any, so I was guaranteed a bonus of £1 - £6, and surprise surprise, they "randomly" selected one of the £1 rounds.

sebloak

House_owner said:

Prolific being extra 'crashy' this afternoon. Had a study come up paying £2.25 - difficult to get onto as the page kept freezing - eventually managed to get on, completed it, but unable to submit as the page is crashing again - refreshing doesn't seem to be helping this time.
Anyone else having this problem?

Edited to add - eventually managed to submit it as a 'no code'

Thats how it was for me, now its just a lack of studies paying in £'s, plenty paying in $'s though but will probably have to wait 3 weeks to pay

elsien

I did a study earlier, which had some very odd questions added on the end one of which involved choosing the winner in a fight between Nigel Farage and a XL bully Which aside from being completely inappropriate had nothing to do with the study at all.

Just had the following:

“Second, I want to acknowledge an error on our part in this latest poll. Two questions were included regarding Nigel Farage that should not have got through our quality control. It was an oversight to include them and they do not reflect Prolific's values or standards. We have now removed those questions, deleted all the data collected for them, and will not be providing it back to the original requester”

Now wondering if someone just decided to have some fun without engaging their brain? Either that or their young teenager somehow  got hold of their research material? 

libra10

I also received the message and hadn't been offended.  Although unexpected, thought they were funny.

elsien

Me neither. Although I’m wondering if it would’ve been less funny if it had been someone other than Nigel Farage. 

libra10

Probably not, though Farage tends to show a similar type of aggression