FD HQ - Prolific Researcher Reviews

scammers, rejected my submissions for low effort, when it took literaly1,5x longer than anticipated

Hello, It took a bit of time. I submitted it on September 13th, and it was approved on September 24th. Cheers

Do not engage. Absolute scammers. The Study took way longer than they claimed then rejected for failing to meet quality standards.

They are thieves they rejected my submission and they said that you don't meet quality standards. So we are not paying you

These scammers claimed that my work, for over 40 minutes, was “low effort.” I have submitted hundreds of studies to Prolific without a single rejection. If I do a study, I give it my full attention. I was always compensated until these data thieves came along. I have filed a formal complaint with Prolific. Also, I will be filing GDPR and CCPA complaints as well. Do not waste your time with these sociopaths.

At this point, I think the chances Prolific doesn't know it's trafficking user data to FocalData free of charge (except, of course, for the fee paid directly to Prolific) are close to 0.

screened out after choosing my gender. researcher should learn to use prolific's filters, but it sounds like i dodged a bullet here anyway

Absolutely terrible chatbot. l

If you see FocalData on any survey, not just from FD HQ, then do not engage. You will spend an hour dealing with a buggy AI chatbot, and then they will reject your thoughtful responses for “intentional low-effort” to save a buck.

Study got "returned" automatically, I was very surprised. I did finish it but researcher is not acting fair though .. another time I got screened-out in the middle of the interview, even I tried to give 1-2 sentences per answer but the AI bot is always asking the same questions, it's actually very tiring to complete the whole interview. Also the bot questions were not loading properly, just buffering OR if u typed something you couldn't hit "enter" button and needed to refresh the page with F5 in order to continue (it worked eventually). This whole page is very buggy ... can't recommend this.

items are not loading properly, not recommended ......

AI chatbot doesn't load properly when you answer the questions so you'll have to type in your answer twice. Waste of time.

heard a lot of negative about them but my Ai interview finished on time and got paid

It was quite repetitive however i did respond to the ai with the best of my ability always giving 1-2 sentences. It does say in the description dont give 1 word answers otherwise they will reject which can seem a bit harsh as some of the questions can be answered with 1 word. I recieved my payment a couple hours after completing.

Avoid, avoid, avoid! I spent nearly an hour doing a survey for them, and it was rejected for being “poor quality”. The survey was facilitated through an awkward chat bot, with several questions that did not make sense. Even so, I asked the chat bot to clarify what it meant, to rephrase questions or to elaborate. I did my very best to answer the questions. I provided thoughtful answers to all questions. After 3 days of waiting for approval, I was rejected. The researcher did not provide any explanation as to what about my submission was poor quality, even though I wrote them twice asking for clarification. Do not waste your time doing surveys for this researcher.

Researcher screens you out after you spent 20 minutes on the survey. Highly sketchy. Avoid.