Received my first rejection on prolific almost immediately after submitting the “Plant Milk Habits” survey. I completed the spoken conversational questions in full and within the normal allotted time frame. It said, “ The researcher has decided that your submission cannot be used” and the justification was “quality” issues. There were no issues whatsoever unless the issue was from their end. No option to return study and no response to my inquiry about doing so.
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This study had plenty of open places, but when I started it, I got this message: Study closed This study is no longer accepting responses. You can safely close this tab. That's fine, but they need to pay partial compensation. Instead, they force you to file a NOCODE, and you'll likely get a rejection, so you have to return it.
I made this account purely for this post and I wish I could rate them 0 stars. Had no issues with their studies until today. They rejected my study after I completed the entire thing on the basis of "potential quality issues", then ignored any messages I sent asking why. Since the rejection, my account has been having serious issues when it comes to reserving studies, and not them or Prolific seem very interested in helping.
ok and long study
PII collection (email address) before a single screener question. No PII flag on the study description. I get through the screener questions, agree to use the camera, and then "You don't qualify."
I always answer to this email stuff with the Prolific email and they accept it. So that's just their way to ask for a Prolific email.
I got an unfair rejection ...the reason they gave was low content quality and when i messaged them to review they did 't reply ...am not doing there study again
One of the most nonsensical studies I've ever been screened out of. Like the screener asked which browser I used at least once a week on PC, and I was screened out for 0.15 USD for answering Google Chrome. Like what the hell? How is this a valid screener?
The screen-out question for one of their surveys today was: "How many times this week have you watched Reels on Instagram" Why oh why did I unblock this researcher? And I didn't take their 35 cents, have to have SOME self-respect.
Got this error: Study closed This study is no longer accepting responses. You can safely close this tab.
It said 21 minutes and was twice as long 42 minutes. I only eceived compensation for 21 minutes.
Screened out after a long screener and no screenout code or reward. I was supposed to get .88 cents.
First rejection after over 2000 approved studies (including previous ones with Parnassus). There was a technical problem with their study and I wasn’t sure of its extent. Got an automatic rejection with no option to return the study and no response from them. Prolific upheld it. Absolute scandal. Avoid them!
exact same thing happened to me. spent 30 minutes on their study, they had a technical issue with my camera (it was on the entire time and so was my mic) and rejected me which has given me major issues with reserving new studies.
Another good Parnassus Labs study, which I can't tell much about besides that it was easy to do and had little to no bugs. It was straightforward, and I got approved fast. But it still underpays for how long you spend on it.
Quite a good study for once, was really fun, but it misses perfection for the sole reason that 7.50 USD/h is quite underpaying for the strict minimum.
This study was okay, but let's say I wasn't really the demographic since I don't run a business. Still, I won't complain about a 0.66 USD screenout reward
The study I did was marked as confidential so I can't really say much about it but let's just said I got screened out in 3 minutes and got instant approval reward of $1.26
Completed the whole study with long detailed answers and thoroughly engaged with every aspect of the study, received an instant rejection after submission. Blocked them and filed a dispute. edit: my rejection was upheld, please avoid them.
I usually don't have any problems with this researcher. I've done many surveys for them and either get screened out for a small payment or complete the survey. But this time I answered a LOT of questions about my usage of streaming services, and then received "Sorry, you do not qualify for this study. Thank you for your time!" with no screen-out or pay.
These guys have really gone downhill. They used to offer pretty okay AI interview studies. Today I took one of their studies for the first time in a while and their AI interviewer kept threatening to end the study if I didn't give longer answers. Like I'm sorry I don't have a ridiculously long answer on why my favorite flavor is orange????? Then the interviewer actually ended the interview. After like ten minutes of work. It didn't even redirect back to prolific or provide a code to at least screen out for my time. Just ended. Extremely rude.
Not the first time but they always seem to reject after I've spent 20-30 mins doing a video ai interview. Have blocked them this time round