Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

ele_91

Yes I’ve just done the same one! Was this a screener too do you think or just a training? I found it took longer than the recommended time. 

onemouseplace

I wondered the same @ele_91. I managed to do it in the time but I felt very rushed.  It was also a right pain not being able to copy sections of the prompts to fact check them.  I think most people took over the time stated though, which obviously brings the hourly rate down.

Slinky

MollyR said:

£5 a month for a static IP is a total rip-off!  All the major ISPs make a one-off charge of £5, which lasts as long as you are with them.

It is a lot hence why I want to avoid it. Trooli are offering me 1GB for £29.99 a month, plus 10% off that, and no mid contract price increases, so it looks tempting if I can get Prolific to work OK with a potentially changing IP address.

MollyR

I cannot believe how often my About You asks me whether I am currently pregnant - it is about once a fortnight!  They know that I am 76 years old.

ele_91

@onemouseplace I think we’re so used to doing the other fact check studies that I expected to spend a lot longer doing these sections! I had to rush the last section to get it done in time.

elsien

MollyR said:

I cannot believe how often my About You asks me whether I am currently pregnant - it is about once a fortnight!  They know that I am 76 years old.

Sorry, but that did make me laugh.  
Although having said that..........
74-year-old reportedly has twins, may be oldest to ever give birth

MollyR

That is sickening.  Who does she think is going to be a mother to them as they grow up?

elsien

 I don’t think there’s a lot of truth to the story. It just rang a bell when you mentioned your age.

MollyR

Near here, a woman had a child by IVF when she was 62.  The child, if alive, will be 18 now;  the mother, if alive, will be 80.  What kind of relationship must they have had over those 18 years?

elsien

There does seem to be a little bit of a double standard going on though because a lot of men carrying on having children well into later life, but don’t get criticised in the same way. 

Anyway, that’s probably another debate for somewhere else. I won’t derail the prolific thread further.