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  • Smodlet
    Smodlet Posts: 6,976 Forumite
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    Do you clear out your cookies every day, Brookside? 'Cos I ain't gettin' anything.
  • Brookside88
    Brookside88 Posts: 338 Forumite
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    Smodlet wrote: »
    Do you clear out your cookies every day, Brookside? 'Cos I ain't gettin' anything.

    No, never. I'll say a little prayer to the prolific gods for you
  • mikep22
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    Brookside88 wrote: »
    No, never. I'll say a little prayer to the prolific gods for you

    I've had 2. One was about computing and my experience with OS's, so I imagine I fit quite neatly into that demographic.
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  • Brookside88
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    mikep22 wrote: »
    I've had 2. One was about computing and my experience with OS's, so I imagine I fit quite neatly into that demographic.

    The one about windows updates? Nice and quick for 2 quid wasn't it
  • mikep22
    mikep22 Posts: 1,529 Forumite
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    Brookside88 wrote: »
    The one about windows updates? Nice and quick for 2 quid wasn't it

    Indeed and already approved, which takes me past the £900 barrier for Prolific. :T:beer:
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  • Brookside88
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    mikep22 wrote: »
    Indeed and already approved, which takes me past the £900 barrier for Prolific. :T:beer:

    Congratulations!

    Still waiting for mine to be approved. Also still waiting for the £10.82 electric shock one to be approved from last week
  • Merlin's_Beard
    Merlin's_Beard Posts: 1,438 Forumite
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    mikep22 wrote: »
    Sounds like it, I would ask for clarification and if they cannot provide it suitably, I think it puts you in a strong position to further complain to Prolific. If the researcher cannot tell you the issue, then they are lacking the evidence to reject. Clearly if what you have written is gibberish (ie Lorem Ipsom) then they have a point, otherwise they are taking the mick.

    If they want responses within certain parameters, they should probably make it clear from the outside. Else it is their fault their survey is badly designed.

    Multiple choice... so no option to give an answer outside the defined parameters that the researcher set!

    Which is what is really p****** me off... if I'd very clearly given them something that they didn't want (ie filling out a survey about sheep dip designed for someone who works on a farm when I had one summer job several decades ago) I'd say, fair enough, I really wasn't what you wanted and I knew it.

    But presumably my responses used too many of the options available, and I ended up as the tail end of the bell curve that's dropped because I'm too many standard deviations away from the mean. But... you expect some data to do that! It's a good enough reason to exclude it from analysis, but not a good enough reason to say it's not real data!

    I've emailed the researcher anyway, and I'll see what they say.

    edit: success! A bit of back and forth with the researcher, and they've paid up.
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  • Brookside88
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    Anyone else find their balance is really slow to update in the new site? I got an email to say approved a good half an hour before it showed in my balance on the site. Submissions seem to take an age to be added to pending balance too
  • Chrisv
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    Clothing consumption study / Part 4 (out of 8)
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  • mikep22
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    Merlin's_Beard wrote: »
    Multiple choice... so no option to give an answer outside the defined parameters that the researcher set!

    Which is what is really p****** me off... if I'd very clearly given them something that they didn't want (ie filling out a survey about sheep dip designed for someone who works on a farm when I had one summer job several decades ago) I'd say, fair enough, I really wasn't what you wanted and I knew it.

    But presumably my responses used too many of the options available, and I ended up as the tail end of the bell curve that's dropped because I'm too many standard deviations away from the mean. But... you expect some data to do that! It's a good enough reason to exclude it from analysis, but not a good enough reason to say it's not real data!

    I've emailed the researcher anyway, and I'll see what they say.

    edit: success! A bit of back and forth with the researcher, and they've paid up.

    If its multiple choice then they should accept all eventualities outside of attention checks tbf...
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