Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

elsien

I’m getting the compare two conversation ones at the moment.
Can’t do those, they just make me want to chuck the laptop at the wall. Not even for $20 a time. 

silvercar

Whenever I am screened out of a survey, the submissions page seems to show the reward itself as credited as well as the smaller payment for the time taken before being screened out. Has anyone worked out if both are being paid? I don’t watch my approved payments total enough to work this out.

onemouseplace

I'm so bored with the AI studies now, especially the side by side ones.  I don't seem to get any others at the moment.  Yes, the pay is better, but one of the things I used to like about Prolific was the variety and plenty of the academic surveys were really interesting.

snowwhyte

My dashboard is full of AI studies and I could do with the money but I'm also not in the mood for them. I have a mix of old style and the other types of AI studies but I am feeling a bit burnt out. Will try and get back into it if they're still there tomorrow.

ele_91

If you do a lot of them (AI studies) I’ve noticed that it throttles your account, presumably because you’re cashing out so much money. I barely see any other type of survey now.

I did some AI tasks for a new researcher last week which were amazing, paying £10 per task and each task only took about 10 minutes. A screener came through when I was awake with my baby late at night so I jumped on it and glad I did!

littlegreenant

ele_91 said:

If you do a lot of them (AI studies) I’ve noticed that it throttles your account, presumably because you’re cashing out so much money. I barely see any other type of survey now.

I did some AI tasks for a new researcher last week which were amazing, paying £10 per task and each task only took about 10 minutes. A screener came through when I was awake with my baby late at night so I jumped on it and glad I did!

I did these new ones too, they were fun! I saw them again later in the week but they had reduced payment to $3.50 which is fair enough as they were quick. Haven’t seen them since that batch though unfortunately 

elsien

I’ve just had a rejection for an AI generative Survey in  tourism, for apparently failing an attention check. Wondered if anyone else had had issues with this because I haven’t no idea what I am meant to have not done right.

MollyR

They are not allowed to fail you for a single attention check in any study longer than five minutes.  There are also clear rules on which type of attention check they may and may not include.   (Prolific's policy on attention checks is at https://researcher-help.prolific.com/en/article/fb63bb.)  If the study was longer than that, you should appeal - to the researchers, quoting Prolific's policy, or to Prolific themselves via the chatbot in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.

elsien

I've messaged them to ask what the issue was but yes, I am going to appeal. Have to be honest I can't remember how long I spent on it (the study said about 5 minutes) and I don't think there is anywhere you can see that, is there? So it may have been under that. I did give some feedback that perhaps wasn't appreciated.

MollyR

If you go to Messages and click on the message the researcher sent to say you had been rejected, or on the message you sent to the researcher asking why, you should see - above the message(s) - the times you started and finished the study.  I don't know how to do this except through the Messages section.