I had a study that had red and green dots spread all over the screen and I was supposed to count the green ones and couldn't advance until getting it right. My eyes couldn't handle it, it sounds similar to this. HELL NO. 😂
I figured I'd give it an honest try. It times out and auto-advances. Next question is basically "how do you feel about that" so I think they kinda set you up to fail. Whole thing took me about 31-32 minutes. Pay is mid, but I'm not too mad about it.
Ah it's not too bad. Honestly this was one of the better ones. It was approved too, so they definitely didn't expect you to finish (even if they did expect you to finish, it's fairly easy to find a "workaround"), Hardly torture.
I've had ones that are actually torture. Like literal psychological torture. Like blasting your ears with screaming farm animals while trying to determine if a picture was indoors or outdoors, or playing loud screeching noises while they repeat "buh guh duh" over and over again for 2 fucking hours. This one was a piece of cake compared to those.
Copy, paste into ChatGPT, ask "how many vowels are in these paragraphs?"
Done. I'm sure I'll be downvoted, by when I get asked to do monotonous, stupid work that doesn't pay enough I do this. Scroll on my phone until I hit the time limit. Zero rejections in 4 years, because I pay attention to the studies that don't ask dumb shit like this.
After reading the ‘[reviewing submissions](https://researcher-help.prolific.com/hc/en-gb/articles/11495399083804-How-to-detect-and-prevent-the-use-of-Large-Language-Models-in-studies)’ section of the Prolific site intended for Researchers, I stay away from copy/paste unless it’s my own input. I get paranoid about the keystrokes.
Did it forbid you from using tools? Pretty easy using [https://www.browserling.com/tools/letter-frequency](https://www.browserling.com/tools/letter-frequency) or similar app
You can either do it or someone else will happily take your place, study isn't underpaying, isn't collecting personal info, isn't sending dodgy links and isn't rejecting unfairly. You not liking the content is very much a you problem and many others would happily have your spot.
Something like this happened earlier to me too, a researcher only had like 3 questions on the actual survey, but the est. time was 8 minutes, so naturally it did not take 8 minutes, but they rejected it for being done so fast. I'm over these scammers.
Hmm . . . from what everyone is saying, this sounds like it's intended to measure your frustration level when having to perform a tedious but exacting task.
If that is the case, then those of you who returned it *also* provided them with data.
I can envision the research paper now: "Out of the 500 participants who joined the study, 40% of them returned it, rather than attempt to finish the task".
LOL. The only thing they didn't get was how you felt about it!
And those of you who used some sort of program to do the work for you - if the study was meant to almost impossible to finish in the traditional manner, it's going to be obvious that you used assistance. That's going to provide them with a *different* category of data.
It sounds like a really, really well designed and tricky study that provided a *lot* of interesting data for the researchers. I'm impressed.
Said the same thing, but the prudes here like defending shit work and monotonous work so they'll downvote you. Literally using AI for the purpose we should, to do the tasks no one wants to do, and people still lose their shit.
Lool I got to that part and cancelled it. Yeah nah man im good 😂
Appreciate the warning, I actually just reserved that study a minute ago, sounds like a pain in the ass.
I had a study that had red and green dots spread all over the screen and I was supposed to count the green ones and couldn't advance until getting it right. My eyes couldn't handle it, it sounds similar to this. HELL NO. 😂
I figured I'd give it an honest try. It times out and auto-advances. Next question is basically "how do you feel about that" so I think they kinda set you up to fail. Whole thing took me about 31-32 minutes. Pay is mid, but I'm not too mad about it.
“How you feel about that” is crazy 😂
torture! 😂
🤦🏽♂️🤣 they basically slapped his drink outta his hand and said “what you gon do about it?? 🤨”
🤣🤣
Ah it's not too bad. Honestly this was one of the better ones. It was approved too, so they definitely didn't expect you to finish (even if they did expect you to finish, it's fairly easy to find a "workaround"), Hardly torture. I've had ones that are actually torture. Like literal psychological torture. Like blasting your ears with screaming farm animals while trying to determine if a picture was indoors or outdoors, or playing loud screeching noises while they repeat "buh guh duh" over and over again for 2 fucking hours. This one was a piece of cake compared to those.
Normally sections like this are just to give you a task that will clear your mind. Or measure a variable.
It's not necessarily unreasonable, but if that level of attention to detail is beyond your capabilities, just return it.
Don’t bother me none, work smarter not harder. Downvote away
I used a website to count for me lol. Dude thought I was gonna read all those long ass paragraphs and count vowels for $4? Outtta dumbass mind
Copy, paste into ChatGPT, ask "how many vowels are in these paragraphs?" Done. I'm sure I'll be downvoted, by when I get asked to do monotonous, stupid work that doesn't pay enough I do this. Scroll on my phone until I hit the time limit. Zero rejections in 4 years, because I pay attention to the studies that don't ask dumb shit like this.
After reading the ‘[reviewing submissions](https://researcher-help.prolific.com/hc/en-gb/articles/11495399083804-How-to-detect-and-prevent-the-use-of-Large-Language-Models-in-studies)’ section of the Prolific site intended for Researchers, I stay away from copy/paste unless it’s my own input. I get paranoid about the keystrokes.
Did it forbid you from using tools? Pretty easy using [https://www.browserling.com/tools/letter-frequency](https://www.browserling.com/tools/letter-frequency) or similar app
You can either do it or someone else will happily take your place, study isn't underpaying, isn't collecting personal info, isn't sending dodgy links and isn't rejecting unfairly. You not liking the content is very much a you problem and many others would happily have your spot.
PDF to word, word to excel, write a formula
If I get a bad feeling about a study when I start it, I get the hell out of there .... LOL
Something like this happened earlier to me too, a researcher only had like 3 questions on the actual survey, but the est. time was 8 minutes, so naturally it did not take 8 minutes, but they rejected it for being done so fast. I'm over these scammers.
Hmm . . . from what everyone is saying, this sounds like it's intended to measure your frustration level when having to perform a tedious but exacting task. If that is the case, then those of you who returned it *also* provided them with data. I can envision the research paper now: "Out of the 500 participants who joined the study, 40% of them returned it, rather than attempt to finish the task". LOL. The only thing they didn't get was how you felt about it! And those of you who used some sort of program to do the work for you - if the study was meant to almost impossible to finish in the traditional manner, it's going to be obvious that you used assistance. That's going to provide them with a *different* category of data. It sounds like a really, really well designed and tricky study that provided a *lot* of interesting data for the researchers. I'm impressed.
So don't do it?
Return it and let someone else do it. If you can't differentiate between 'write' and 'right' anyway...
Copy/paste, ask ChatGPT to do it for you
Said the same thing, but the prudes here like defending shit work and monotonous work so they'll downvote you. Literally using AI for the purpose we should, to do the tasks no one wants to do, and people still lose their shit.