#prolific.ac

[drdemonprince]

I've just started using survey websites like Swagbucks and Branded Surveys to try to make some easy money. Do you have any recommendations for other sites/ what responses to give so that I get more surveys lol

Those two sites suck! You can make a lot more money at Prolific.ac and on Amazon's MTurk. Both sites are used widely by social science researchers as a subject recruitment tool, and in the last decade have really come to be respected even by peer-reviewed journal editors as a reputable place for collecting data. There's significant grant funding behind many Prolific and MTurk projects, and the pay rate for completeing surveys can be decent -- particularly if you take a number of free pre-screening surveys first and identify yourself as someone that researchers might be looking pretty hard to recruit.

That said, I don't really believe that the scientific respectability these sites have is truly well-earned, as even I have lied on Prolific pre-screening surveys to qualify for a well-paying study multiple times. The limitations of self-report survey apply here as they always do, and they are worsened by the payment incentive. Everyone on all of these sites has every reason to lie about who they are and to complete surveys and rapidly as possible in order to increase their pay rate.

But given how widespread other questionable research protocols are in the social science literature and how much we have already done to erode public trust, I can't say anything to discourage participants from doing what they can to make a quick buck. On those two sites that I've mentioned, at least the pay is a bit greater and the questions are a bit more interesting than your standard market research study.

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[hooksforeverything]

w10: guests, leaves, books

Caught up on the last few short stories Seanan McGuire posted on her Patreon. I particularly liked the one that's not about marshmallows.

You could buy notebooks with some of my nicer photos on the cover from society6 - or at least add them to your basket and wait for one of their many free shipping days.

First ever Etsy sale Wednesday! It was the ring mechanism out of an old non-filofax binder, and I'd listed it as £3 + £4 postage. Postage was £4.15 to Sweden. Tracked would have been over £10, so I very much hope it doesn't go astray.

On Friday afternoon the field we decided not to try to bid on because we couldn't match Faceless Development Corp money sold for £200k. I'm sorry that it's going to get 32 normal homes built on it, but I'm very glad it sold outside our range. I'd have felt guilty if we could have had it but didn't try.

I didn’t go to the craft fair on Friday night because I was too tired and couldn’t face the crowds. I don’t feel great about not supporting them - there are some phenomenally talented women creating things and selling them there.

plant updates: the pepper seedlings have recovered from their horrific overwatering, cosmos seedlings are about an inch tall, dogrose seeds have not broken the surface yet, and I've planted grass seed in a tiny pot that another plant grew out of because there's not enough space in it for anything I'll bond with. I have a cherry sprig and a willow sprig set up to start roots but that might not work.

the James Grieve apple tree has buds, the crabapple has leaf buds, the double plum is not showing any signs of spring.

I've had three hours work this week, which is normal, and I picked up enough surveys on prolific.ac to cover my Patreon subscriptions. We've been pretty good about money and food - a delivery meal Thursday night was because my guest fancied it, and the Big Spoon and I ate the leftovers on Friday.

books I particularly enjoyed from this week: An American Marriage (love, race, class, incarceration, family) and As I Descended (ambition, class, ghosts).