Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

elsien

onemouseplace said:

@elsien I hope not!  If anything, I get the impression it's ramping up a bit and they are trying to make it a bit more professional with direct emails to the participant group and I just got an email about the support hub area for training and contact.

I have noticed that I am not getting as many other surveys now, but not that many less than when it became really hard to get on any studies, so I'm not sure if it's actually affected the algorithm or not.  I've been quite busy with these and another project that has just ended on another platform, so not really keeping much of an eye.

What I am really hoping is that they will divide the partipant group up according to skillset - so I won't have to blunder my way through the physics, maths and coding based ones, and be left to the nice history, legal and general knowledge ones which are much more in my comfort zone!

I’ve not had a hub invite as yet. I did have a spate of checking the accuracy of graphs which I really liked because that suits my way of thinking.   The compare Two conversations one just fried my brain and I return those.

MollyR

I've had quite a lot of the ones where you have to pick up on just the first mistake that the AI bot makes, which suited me down to the ground because I can be quite pernickety when I put my mind to it.

elsien

Yes, I like those as well. You see coding website and your heart sinks and then they make a mistake on the very first thing and life suddenly gets better again! 

Racheljaa

I have one similar, but you have to check for all errors to rate which side is better...

MollyR

Yes, I avoid those ones now!

ele_91

Has anyone done the studies where you have to check steps the bot makes on crawling websites? I’ve done the tutorial a few times now and it says you have to edit the first mistake step but for the life of me I don’t see this when I do the task. 

I wish there was more help for these as I’m terrified of making a mistake and not getting any more sent to me! Been quieter since Sunday, the past few weeks I’ve had a dashboard full every day.

elsien

Yes, I’ve done several of those today. Most of the ones I’ve done have had pretty glaring errors, tbh. 

ele_91

elsien said:

Yes, I’ve done several of those today. Most of the ones I’ve done have had pretty glaring errors, tbh. 

Yes the errors are obvious but I can’t find the part where it says ‘edit previous step’? I just get a box at the bottom to add a correction, even if the correction was in one of the first steps the bot took. 
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onemouseplace

I did my first of those this morning - I did the tutorial but when I was working I couldn't the instructions I had access to were nowhere near as detailed as in the tutorial so I was guessing a bit what I needed to put!

@ele_91 I couldn't find the edit previous step button either. 

olliebean

A study to categorising shapes! - Android phones only!

By tcd.ie

£2.70 • £8.28/hr

19 mins

0 places

Did anyone do this one and have any clue what you were supposed to be doing? Early on, some text flashed on the screen too briefly to read, which perhaps contained the explanation, but then I was thrust into watching shapes move on my screen while my phone vibrated, and was apparently supposed to categorise each vibration into category A or B, without the slightest hint of what each category was. I gave up after about 6 minutes, because I was just guessing blindly and didn't want to be rejected for giving random answers.