08/12 -Spaghetti Penguin Tuesday

S@TR [A1VHA47ORXU6WR] Participate in our research about human emotions (~5 mins) - $0.65 | PANDA

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$7.03 / hour
00:05:33 / completion time

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Catchability: Unlikely (HIT Last Seen: 22 minutes ago)
Qualifications: ab5c70a2a750f5b115e550db4b754b92dfd32213 NotIn 1, 2, 3, 4; 80412233201bcb15666b2ac446860a99b1c3bf42 DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 500; 3b97ea7cec6d03d8cd5dbc72df5dea4f8af9a603 DoesNotExist ; c117e04615e2bd028dd945d3cc140fe18edd7008 DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) >= 99; Location EqualTo US; 34ee50c9eacb4e076cedf82013242ddbbbff8013 NotIn 0;

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Marketplace Survey [A6V50EUOL3BNR] Brief Marketplace Survey (~1 Minutes)(~ 1 minutes) - $0.15 | PANDA

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$10.00 / hour
00:00:54 / completion time

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Catchability: Expiring Soon (HIT Last Seen: 4 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 100; Exc: [14803688-462065] DoesNotExist ; islfvr8491 >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Location In US;

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So I spend extra time writing essay-length commentaries for underpaying market surveys, all 100% my thoughts without AI, all 100% my lifelong style of writing ... and then I get flagged for suspicion of being an AI.

Someone advised me to: Write short concise responses, not lengthy essays. Don't write too perfectly, don't write like a professional writer would, don't write in refined styles that someone could interpret as "AI-like." Write casually, loosely, but concisely. Make some mistakes in spelling and grammar! Don't use any em-dashes, lol. Avoid a tendency to use my "natural" writing style if it puts me at risk of suspicion.

Such is the tyranny of the new era, some of us have to abandon our own writing styles, and dumb ourselves down to avoid being flagged as AI-like.

 

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Annie Cui [ASCUH0EVPCPRK] 3-minute survey for consumers in the U.S. - $0.60 | PANDA

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$19.64 / hour
00:01:50 / completion time

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Long timer

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Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 2 hours ago)
Qualifications: Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) >= 90; Total approved HITs > 50; Location EqualTo US;

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Just a little communication and attention to detail is all I ask.

 

Yeunjae Lee [A2XG78VPGBCP1] Survey (US) - Tell us how you feel about the brands and their messages! - $2.00 | PANDA

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$12.95 / hour
00:09:16 / completion time

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Brief video / memory check

Catchability: Terrible (HIT Last Seen: 2 hours ago)
Qualifications: Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) > 98; Location EqualTo US;

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Mauricio Mittelman [A300Q6DM6PYNWD] Short Academic Survey(~ 3 minutes) - $0.50 | PANDA

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$19.15 / hour
00:01:34 / completion time

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Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 3 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [462645-462056] DoesNotExist ; islfvr8491 >= 100; Location In US;

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The "Tyranny" of Timers ;-)

Spent an hour enjoying an interesting written study, giving all the copious details that the researcher wanted, by typing on my cumbersome phone's screen which slows me down. ... Just over 56 minutes, unpaid because it timed out at 55.

Timers are "tyranny", lol.

I've seen some Market Research survey platforms that don't push us with unnecessary timers. They will keep a survey open for a much longer time, sometimes up to days without expiration, or until the research project's collection period ends.

Academics, and survey platforms used by academics, could do the same if they wanted to.

In the proverbial "99 percent" of cases, researchers don't NEED my input to be sumbmitted within the next 3 minutes, 33 minutes, or 55 minutes. As long as the research project's collection period remains open, there's little if any reason to push participants with unnecessary short timers.

There's no justification for using timeouts to intentionally to collect some free data, if that is ever the intent. But often a researcher sets a timer to X minutes just because that's a common practice on a platform. Sure, it's common practice to set timers shorter than they really need to be — but being a common practice doesn't make it necessary.

As I said, there are some Market Research platforms don't do short timers. They'll keep a survey open, sometimes for days, or until the research project's collections end. That is a better and friendlier policy than the pushy short-timers paradigm.

 

I have had very much the same situation happen. For me though it's more the short timers, if I know the question, there's no reason to "take my time" reading it and I tend to click and move on. Most of the surveys I've done don't have long timers. Yesterday there were 2 surveys that I had to step away for a while, and came back several hours later to finish and they accepted it. I do understand using timers for detecting AI, etc. But most of the time the timers are way too short. I have been denied a lot of surveys due to clicking just slightly faster/slower than the timer. Grrr.

 

These last few weeks on prolific have been a shitshow for me. Just had one filling in all the comprehension questions itself twice and made me "fail" and request to return.