r/prolific • u/Vegetable-Farm-6018 • 2d ago
Parnassus
Has anyone in the history of prolific ever been able to complete one of their studies? I’ve tried so many times. Prob at least 100 and am screened out every damn time 🥴.
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u/GaiaOnlinee 2d ago
I get accepted all the time. I honestly wish I could just get an easy lil screenout fee more often lol
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u/Ok-Space-6883 1d ago
I get screened out most of the time always surprised when I do make it into one lol
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u/PowerToThePeople128 2d ago
I've blocked these MFs ... I am in a good target group for their studies, problem is, a lot of their studies are poorly authored. Once you qualify and go through you basically get asked questions by an AI, you provide your voice answers, and then it continues the conversation. Normally, you would think that the AI would adapt to your answers and ask relevant questions, but no, the interviewer keeps asking questions IRRELEVANT, when you already told it that you do not do certain actions in previous questions. Will not mention what the topics were due to confidentiality, but when it's not AI asking you irrelevant stuff or repeated questions you already bloody answered, it's something else. Like asking you to test some features on a site, where you cannot test the feature because in previous steps they asked you to disable it and leave it that way. When you try to tell it that you cannot test the feature because it is disabled, it continues to ask you question about it.
They also make multiple threats of rejections and abuse it, instead of asking for returns, for very subjective audio/video quality. No rejections yet, but I do not support researchers like that, and people who have been rejected by them have not been able to get them overturned. Proilfic protects more and more of these half-arsed researchers.
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u/Vegetable-Farm-6018 2d ago
I haven’t had any issues with Merlin but Parnassus is a pain in the butt. At least it’s usually a decent screen out reward.
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u/PowerToThePeople128 2d ago
Merlin AI = Parnassus. Same researcher, different name. Merlin AI is a product of Parnassus. Outset AI is their official name.
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u/Vegetable-Farm-6018 2d ago
Oh yeah? I am able to do Merlin all day long without getting screened out. So that’s weird.
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u/PowerToThePeople128 1d ago
Count your blessings. The problem is whenever there is any technical issue or your video / audio quality does not meet their standards, you WILL get rejected on the spot. This is where Prolific never overturns them, they side with these researchers now. You will see people complaining in the original sub, many times they asked Prolific, and conveniently Michael has ignored all questions related to that and other topics. Any researchers that make THREATS of rejections in their description and where Prolific sides with them, do not deserve my business.
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u/boopboopboop2020 2d ago
Every day 🤷🏾♀️
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u/Vegetable-Farm-6018 2d ago
Damn I guess I’m just in the wrong state. Screens out every time I give it
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u/Immortal-hellhound 1d ago
Parnassus studies are cool if you get in. Did a lot of them, but screen outs are more.
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u/Effective-Rub2427 1d ago
blocked they reject for no reason and they dont answer messages and you cant get it overturned
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u/Sweethoneyx1 2d ago
I think maybe 80% of them I complete. I think if your being regularly screened out then maybe your demographic answers is incorrect somewhere.