Hypatia Team - Prolific Researcher Reviews

Instant approval

I really liked this study, so my review is a bit long. In summary, it was very fun and educational, but took much longer than the intended completion time (although hourly pay remained decent). The study also approved immediately. If the study wasn't so interesting I might have given 3 stars- I think if it were possible to, I would give around 3.7 stars. I love the concept and I learned a lot. However, it took me a lot longer than the intended time. I took 71 minutes when the intended time was 40 minutes-- this is especially frustrating because the study times out after 74 minutes, so I was very close to timing out. I will say for complete transparency: I did get distracted at one point so I was a bit slower temporarily. I also got quite unlucky in that my internet randomly went off at the exact moment I went to submit the final quiz, so I had to wait a minute to get it back on and redo my answers. Taking these into account: The internet restarting and me having to resubmit my answers took about 3 minutes, and this was not the fault of the researcher of course. Me getting distracted for a bit we could say added 5 minutes or so, maybe if we want to be very generous we could say 10. Even factoring in these issues outside of the researcher's control, that would still mean I took about 58-63 minutes total, which is much more than the intended 40 minutes. I suppose the specific calculations are unnecessary, but what can I say, I just spent an hour reading about numbers and probabilities 😅

Very fun, and takes me back to college statistics courses. Approval was immediate.

It was slightly difficult to learn but still easy in the sense that they were low pressure (you could miss questions and it would help you to learn and fix it). Really clean interface, they are transparent from the very beginning & Instant approval

Interesting study (I actually learned new things!), approved within ten minutes of submission.

Really easy, approved almost instantly.