Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

MollyR

A survey study about your opinion on a given tweet
By Zhizhi He
£0.75 • £6.62/hr
6 mins
59 places

The first page says: "This questionnaire requires your authorized location to answer. If it still cannot be opened after authorization, please enable the location service of the device."

I have reported it for "Unauthorized personal data collection" and "Suspicious information request".  I cannot see  any reason why a reputable survey should want to use a browser's location facility rather than simply ask the respondent which basic area of the country they live in.  I also cannot see why a study which looks at responses to a tweet needs to know anybody's location anyway.

olliebean

MollyR said:

A survey study about your opinion on a given tweet
By Zhizhi He
£0.75 • £6.62/hr
6 mins
59 places

The first page says: "This questionnaire requires your authorized location to answer. If it still cannot be opened after authorization, please enable the location service of the device."

I have reported it for "Unauthorized personal data collection" and "Suspicious information request".  I cannot see  any reason why a reputable survey should want to use a browser's location facility rather than simply ask the respondent which basic area of the country they live in.  I also cannot see why a study which looks at responses to a tweet needs to know anybody's location anyway.

I allowed it, knowing that my desktop browser doesn't report my location accurately anyway (it gets the country right, and usually the city), and it told me "Sorry, you're not allowed to take this survey, please return."

Value

MollyR said:

A survey study about your opinion on a given tweet
By Zhizhi He
£0.75 • £6.62/hr
6 mins
59 places

I also reported it for unauthorised data collection. I think it might have been that the survey tool they've used automatically wanted to collect that data rather than for this specific study, but I didn't want to allow it.

MollyR

All the more reason to object to it, if the survey tool was collecting respondents' data without even the researcher knowing!

silvercar

I did it. The survey worked fine. I know location services on laptop are out by about 15 miles, so I'm not that bothered.

sammyjammy

Anyone do this one? 

Business English Assessment 1

they said 20 minutes, took me 40 and just looked now, the average was 56 minutes for £2, massively underpaying, have reported it.

sammyjammy

sammyjammy said:

Anyone do this one? 

Business English Assessment 1

they said 20 minutes, took me 40 and just looked now, the average was 56 minutes for £2, massively underpaying, have reported it.

Paid with an additional £3.63.

MollyR

The new term must be starting in certain universities.  I have done 13 studies today!

willowcat27

Just wondering if anyone has ever actually got one of those bonuses from a study where they say they will select 'two' lucky participants, or however many, and these people will receive the bonus.  I'm sure they pay up, but it's never been me!

elsien

MollyR said:

The new term must be starting in certain universities.  I have done 13 studies today!

I’ve had a spate of ridiculously low-paying ones that I’ve had to report.