Weak, It's Only Wednesday!

I've had a similar experience. At first I thought it was a summer slowdown type of thing, but the work fell off by more than 90% from my first few weeks on there and it's been just as long without it coming back now. Usually I see 0 studies all day or 1 study that pays peanuts sitting there all day.

 

Prolific has been terrible lately. I used to sign on in the morning and catch a good 5 to 7 bucks worth. Now, there is nothing.

 

It'll either be long, dry, and very tedious, or it'll be an expletive-laden rant full of bitterness and we watch his head slowly explode in real time.

Give it a try, maybe we'll get lucky and get the second one. That'd be good for a laugh.

 

This is debatable. (jk of course)

 

Keith Mander [A21G7N0PL5MWWM] Quick market research survey - $0.45 | PANDA
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Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 5 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Location EqualTo US;
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Oh hi Phil.

 

Julian Christensen [A15KYX42FITNA3] Answer a survey on your political attitudes & behaviors (expected average duration = around 8 minutes) - $2.25 | PANDA
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Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: 5 seconds ago)
Qualifications: Prior participants DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) > 98; Total approved HITs > 5000; Location EqualTo US;
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MTurk: free for all conveyor belt system. HITs are tossed onto the production line and everyone standing at the front of the conveyer belt gets them. MTurk gives functionality to requesters that can filter workers but exerts no actual control on that scoping and leaves it completely up to the requester to engage with their workforce as desired. A valid marketplace design.

Prolific: Takes MTurk and finagles itself into the conveyer belt, booting experienced factory line workers to the back of the pack on purpose to hit company priority needs (which they presume are also their customer needs). Exerts control on the when you can work. Non valid marketplace design. All the cons, none of the plusses (an actual paycheck) of a system where a third party company exerts control over your work.

TurkPrime: Sits in the middle. Acts more as an added filter, giving requesters the ability to implement Prolific's "silent" functionality, but is boogeyman by nature of being purely third party. The key factor, for me, is they do not silently insert their filters without the actual "hiring" body making the choice.

It's not a cap. If they cannot fill market quota, they will let you in. But they prefer not to and so they exert their own control over the flow of tasks. Someone could argue (and prolific does) it's about "data quality" but that's bullshit. If MTurk applied the Masters qualification to tasks without the requester's approval I'd say MTurk was equally as bullshit, but they don't do that because they aren't stupid.


All that said, it's dead of Summer and Prolific is almost a purely academic platform, the entire ecosystem will be zzz until mid-Sept IIRC and that matters 10x more than their stupid philosophy on how you're not actually a person since it sits in front of that algorithm.

 

Also no one had the daily double of tossing in a metaphor, suck it nerds I'm evolving

 

Title: Research study(~ 3 minutes) | Accept Requester: Jodie Whelan [A2SNFWI4CL5F1D] Contact TV: [Hrly=$14.55] [Pay=Good] [Approval=~24 hrs] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=3.79] [Fast=5.00] [Comm=5.00] [Fair=5.00] [Reviews=22] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 0.50 Duration: 30:00 Available: 14 Description: This link is pretesting measures for use in future research. Qualifications: Total approved HITs LessThanOrEqualTo 500000; Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 500; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95; CR Research Group #1 GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [9953106-310990] DoesNotExist ; Location In US

 

Told you

 

Clark Cao [A7TYG64AILBQY] A study on consumption behavior(~ 6 minutes) - $0.60 | PANDA
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Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [-2144528798-310966] DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; CR Research Group #1 >= 100; Location In US;
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Title: Workplace Experiences Survey | Accept Requester: Brian C. Holtz [ANHP5FM2X6F9V] Contact TV: [Hrly=$19.22] [Pay=Generous] [Approval=~24 hrs] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=4.29] [Fast=5.00] [Comm=4.43] [Fair=4.76] [Reviews=26] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 1.00 Duration: 20:00 Available: 1 Description: 5 minute survey to help better understand employee experiences in the workplace Qualifications: Sorting Task DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 500; Location In CA, US; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 99

 

"Man predicts sun comes up every morning"

 

But... what if it doesn't one day. He risks being wrong!

 

Title: A screening survey for our main study ($3 for 20 mins) | Accept Requester: jason thatcher [A1846THIJJT6X5] Contact TV: [Hrly=$13.70] [Pay=Fair] [Approval=1-3 days] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=0.00] [Fast=0.00] [Comm=0.00] [Fair=0.00] [Reviews=1] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 0.20 Duration: 30:00 Available: 1 Description: This is a screening test for our main study ($3; 20 mins). This screening survey includes only 8-10 questions. Please check and see if you are eligible for our main study. Qualifications: qualification_1 DoesNotExist ; qualification_2 DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 500; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 95; Location EqualTo US

 

Qual/Screener!

jason thatcher [A1846THIJJT6X5] A screening survey for our main study ($3 for 20 mins) - $0.20 | PANDA
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Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: qualification_1 DoesNotExist ; qualification_2 DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs > 500; HIT approval rate (%) > 95; Location EqualTo US;
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Julian Christensen [A15KYX42FITNA3] Answer a survey on your political attitudes & behaviors (expected average duration = around 8 minutes) - $2.25 | PANDA
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Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: 11 seconds ago)
Qualifications: Prior participants DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) > 98; Total approved HITs > 5000; Location EqualTo US;
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Stop Chris you're going to get us all in trouble


As dead as it is, was, or can be, I'm going to humbly be grateful for any requester, person, individual, startup, group, or team who wants to publish a HIT on that platform. If I can add $5-50 to my daily earnings while still completing my daily agenda I'll be smiling.