Question / Discussion Do you find some of the prolific academic studies complicated?

[try2belucky]

Prolific is my favourite website as it's my biggest earner but some of the studies are what I'd expect A level maths to be like and I only got a D at school

The ones I especially hate are where the instructions are long winded and look extremely complicated and then I get a set of comprehension questions I have to get right before continuing. 90% of the time I get screened out of these.

I had one today that really frustrated me. I had 80 repetitive questions about insurance quotes so I had to input a figure 80 times. This was easy but boring. I finally got to the end of that with a sigh of relief, only to find that for the next task there were some instructions followed by 3 comprehension questions. I knew the answer to 2 of them as the instructions weren't very long but I couldn't get the 3rd one right. I actually read the instructions 3 times and got the question wrong 3 times so after all that time spent on the study, I had no option but to screen myself out.

I almost lose the will to live lol on those repetitive ones where you have to click, for instance, M if the word is negative and Z if the word is positive and you have to do this several hundred times. But I tend to stick with it for the money.

My favourite studies are the shorter and easier ones. But I don't mind the longer ones if they're easy.

 

[Topaz]

When I see a huge page of instructions, I always copy & paste them to refer back to when the inevitable comprehension questions arrive. Even then, I can't work out the answer that they are looking for at times! Not blowing my own trumpet here, but being a Mensa member, I'm not exactly dim. Often I get to the end of a study and think what exactly were they looking for there and was there actually any point to it at all? But hey, they pay me, so its all good

 

[rich110991]

Occasionally they can be complicated yeah, but I just quit them.

 

[mrcbo]

Yeah I quite enjoy these actually especially the maths ones. Sometimes even get some paper to try and complete them The ones I hate are the writing ones - weakest subject!

 

[Topaz]

Yeah I quite enjoy these actually especially the maths ones. Sometimes even get some paper to try and complete them The ones I hate are the writing ones - weakest subject!

I love the writing ones, but dislike the maths ones. Once wrote a full short story for one of them. Not sure what the researcher thought, but I enjoyed it

 

[Lemonade23]

I like the writing ones too. I used to like the compare poetry ones as I've studied that. I had a focus group the other day too, that was good.