Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Slinky

Not only was the Farage one odd (I picked the XL to win), so was the one about broccoli on pizza. Farage also appeared in the pool of candidates to lead the conservative party also which I also thought was odd.

olliebean

Slinky said:

Not only was the Farage one odd (I picked the XL to win), so was the one about broccoli on pizza. Farage also appeared in the pool of candidates to lead the conservative party also which I also thought was odd.

I think there's a cohort of Tories who would be well up for that, and I reckon Farage has his sights set on it.

Slinky

olliebean said:

Slinky said:

Not only was the Farage one odd (I picked the XL to win), so was the one about broccoli on pizza. Farage also appeared in the pool of candidates to lead the conservative party also which I also thought was odd.

I think there's a cohort of Tories who would be well up for that, and I reckon Farage has his sights set on it.

Think I'd rather have an XL running the country....

C_J

Has anyone else noticed that more and more often you can click on a study and reserve your place, only to receive an error message to say that the study is already full (despite there being dozens of places available) or is no longer active? Some studies might have 200 places but only allow one person at a time to engage with it at any one time. Am I alone in feeling a bit grumpy about this?

Purpleteddy

C_J said:

Has anyone else noticed that more and more often you can click on a study and reserve your place, only to receive an error message to say that the study is already full (despite there being dozens of places available) or is no longer active? Some studies might have 200 places but only allow one person at a time to engage with it at any one time. Am I alone in feeling a bit grumpy about this?

I have been experiencing the same thing multiple times within the past 2 days including today. I normally could only get into a handful a day but now I only get into 1 if I am lucky. 

sebloak

C_J said:

Has anyone else noticed that more and more often you can click on a study and reserve your place, only to receive an error message to say that the study is already full (despite there being dozens of places available) or is no longer active? Some studies might have 200 places but only allow one person at a time to engage with it at any one time. Am I alone in feeling a bit grumpy about this?

No your not alone in this, as soon as i realise that it 'limited participation' now i don't bother with it. Im also getting fed up of studies that start, then go straight to completion page and then being asked to return it by researcher due to mistakes they made.

silvercar

Anyone have this:

20 minute survey

By Florian Zimmermann

£3.15 • £13.36/hr

14 mins

1 place

After wasting some time on it, I was screened out on the basis of one question wrong on a quiz to ensure I understood the complicated rules. No indication of which question and the questions were difficult to answer.

cagsd

silvercar said:

Anyone have this:

20 minute survey

By Florian Zimmermann

£3.15 • £13.36/hr

14 mins

1 place

After wasting some time on it, I was screened out on the basis of one question wrong on a quiz to ensure I understood the complicated rules. No indication of which question and the questions were difficult to answer.

I did this one yesterday and the follow up today, I had not got one clue what it was about and just completely guessed every answer. I have never taken such a complicated study!! You were probably best being screened out of it

Slinky

I saw that one but missed out, sounds like a good swerve.

trix-a-belle

Recently come back to prolific after a break and after the researcher sitting on my response for one survey for nearly 2 weeks has then rejected it for 'failing attention check questions' surely if there was a pass/fail attention check I should have been rejected mid survey, not after completion (+ 2 weeks), was a reasonable pay too