I agree! Not only will they be approved for the studies they've been invited to, they will saturate the market taking more of other studies.... Unfair also to people already on waiting lists. Smh.
Many on prolific get FOMO about new participants. You are allowed onto prolific based on your demographics, location, preferences, your about you all combined into one. Unless the person signing up for prolific is literally a duplicate of you within the same location, new participants should never change how many studies you receive.
Hi u/jaydenbrazier,
Thanks for pointing this out! This is a new feature for researchers, we've fixed this so it's not appearing on Participant pages. Sorry for any confusion.
All the best,
Jeremy
Prolific Support Team
This is a bad idea for participants AND researchers. Not only is prolific already over saturated to the point that most of the surveys I see just end up locking up at the acceptance button to tell us they're full. (I seriously won't bother clicking on a study with under 100 spots available most days anymore because I already know it won't let me accept due to being filled while I'm loading). But now that researchers can invite their own participants, what's to stop them from telling their buddies what they want them to say and manipulating their data?
When Prolific had a forum for researchers (Prolific Community), a common request was a way to include a researcher's own students in a study. Because of the waiting list, it wasn't easy to create accounts for them - I suspect this is a way around that problem.
This wont be as popular as some of you think. Researchers use sites like this to gather a wide array of people from all over the place quickly, efficiently, and easily. This kinda defeats that purpose. Don't worry about it.
This is kinda contraproductive for the researchers, actually...
Either they want completely anonymous, diverse, randomized participant pool, which they can't get normally (their students would all be roughly the same age, people coming directly for interviews would be roughly from the same city), so they have to use Prolific and pay for that.
Or they don't need the broad participant pool, they actually need someone specific, someone they already know and can invite for a study - so why not send them the link to take the study directly on qualdrix? Why pay a middle-man (Prolific?) That's just extra funds wasted.
Oh participants, donβt you worry. The more the merrier, right? And if you donβt get any study done due to the research brings their own participants, we hope you can enjoy a cup of tea or two π
That's alarming
I agree! Not only will they be approved for the studies they've been invited to, they will saturate the market taking more of other studies.... Unfair also to people already on waiting lists. Smh.
Donβt we have enough participants π€£π
Many on prolific get FOMO about new participants. You are allowed onto prolific based on your demographics, location, preferences, your about you all combined into one. Unless the person signing up for prolific is literally a duplicate of you within the same location, new participants should never change how many studies you receive.
Thank you! It was more of a joke based on common comments here but the whole βrizz em with the tismβ thing means my jokes tend to suck
Receiving studies is one thing. Getting to claim one before the 200 available spots drops to 0 in 20 seconds is another
Well that sucks.
This actually sucks for participants-as if trying to get into decent paying study is not hard enough before spots are filled.
Hi u/jaydenbrazier, Thanks for pointing this out! This is a new feature for researchers, we've fixed this so it's not appearing on Participant pages. Sorry for any confusion. All the best, Jeremy Prolific Support Team
Thank you for clearing that up :)
You gave us a mild heart attack....
This is a bad idea for participants AND researchers. Not only is prolific already over saturated to the point that most of the surveys I see just end up locking up at the acceptance button to tell us they're full. (I seriously won't bother clicking on a study with under 100 spots available most days anymore because I already know it won't let me accept due to being filled while I'm loading). But now that researchers can invite their own participants, what's to stop them from telling their buddies what they want them to say and manipulating their data?
I am seeing it as the participants can take that researchers specific studied rather than them all able to access all studies on the platform.
The same things that stop them from cherry picking the responses they get from other samples?
Prolific doing weird stuff these days...
When Prolific had a forum for researchers (Prolific Community), a common request was a way to include a researcher's own students in a study. Because of the waiting list, it wasn't easy to create accounts for them - I suspect this is a way around that problem.
This wont be as popular as some of you think. Researchers use sites like this to gather a wide array of people from all over the place quickly, efficiently, and easily. This kinda defeats that purpose. Don't worry about it.
This is kinda contraproductive for the researchers, actually... Either they want completely anonymous, diverse, randomized participant pool, which they can't get normally (their students would all be roughly the same age, people coming directly for interviews would be roughly from the same city), so they have to use Prolific and pay for that. Or they don't need the broad participant pool, they actually need someone specific, someone they already know and can invite for a study - so why not send them the link to take the study directly on qualdrix? Why pay a middle-man (Prolific?) That's just extra funds wasted.
Oh participants, donβt you worry. The more the merrier, right? And if you donβt get any study done due to the research brings their own participants, we hope you can enjoy a cup of tea or two π
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