06/30 - Hopeful Tuesday

I generally only said that to her because I know how much she considers it a priority is all. For the average dude/dudette who just wants to make an extra $3/day or whatever they let you do before throttling your account probs not an issue. But the conf I was sitting in on today was with them and the levels of control they want to exert on user identity management is directly in "fuck you hire us as employees" categories for me so def prob something she'd think was yucky lol.

If you wanna track my heart rate while I'm taking a survey about washing machines.. just fuck off.

 

WTF? Jim from prolific wants to friend me and I’ve never been on Facebook

 

"For this section, please place the heart rate monitor on your genitals."

"On a scale from 1-10, how arousing do you find Maytag appliances?"

"Sorry, you responded with '3', but the increased blood flow to your penis determined that you were being untruthful. You've been screened out for academic dishonesty. Feel free to try another one of our surveys in the future!"

 

Damnit, I just had a really good business idea but the name "Sticky" is already taken. @ChrisTurk pls advise.

 

Your phone number isn't just randomly out there on Prolific for anyone to see. If a company having your phone number to make sure you're not an Indian sweatshop worker or Chinese prisoner is an issue, maaaan do I have bad news to tell you about your pizza delivery driver...

 

How would everyone know Clemson was good at football is not for Syracuse to compare to?

 

You live under the idea that I don't just get pizza from Papa murphy's. I don't tend to order much of anything online and when I do it's under a family member because they have prime. I am very aware of my privacy and my digital identity. I hate every aspect of it.

 

I like how you posted this in sarcasm and yet are pretty spot on.

When you give a presentation and say "our [worker population control] methods are sort of authoritarian" you should just shut the fuck up and stop.

Are you sure? Because Prolific has handed over the entirety of your demographic profile to requesters in the past, regardless of the screening criteria they requested for their study. Take a study about a dishwasher? Congrats in that dataset your entire sexual preference history, gender metrics, income, et al is sitting in a dataset that hopefully doesn't get pushed to the "open science" movement without them pulling the unique identifier prolific assigns to your account & also attached on to that.

Sidenote.. How do you think they're using your phone # to verify you aren't some sweat shop worker in [X] place? Because they definitely have to differentiate between a real live American's # and a google voice one. Did you just get a new # and plug it in? Sure hope your demographics matched the last owner's in whatever SV startup they just pulled your metrics from.

I am all for measures to responsibly ensure workers are acting in good faith. I'm even okay with some of the stretching of those measures if it actually comes with some positive tradeoffs. But Prolific is an ugly combination of heartless, stupid, and incompetent.

 

Seonil Son [AN616VBO474JX] Which sentence would make a better continuation for the context? (20~35 min) - $6.00 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$36.73 / hour
00:09:48 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:
TIL that 43 multiple choice questions are ~30 multiple choice questions.

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 21 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) > 92;

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Empirical Jury [A2QGI2L47S8HB0] Jury Duty - The Kind You Get Paid For (GT-Land-R)(~ 29 minutes) - $3.60 | PANDA

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated

$9.57 / hour
00:22:34 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 19 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [7358127-230607] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 90; SurveyGroup [3982] DoesNotExist ;

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Empirical Jury [A2QGI2L47S8HB0] Jury Duty - The Kind You Get Paid For (GT-Land-R)(~ 29 minutes) - $3.60 | PANDA

Underpaid

Unrated

Unrated

$8.76 / hour
00:24:40 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:
Definite pay drop. This would typically be one of their $5 hits. Lots of reading and several writing prompts.

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 19 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [7358127-230607] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 90; SurveyGroup [3982] DoesNotExist ;

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“Fat, drunk, and stupid no way to go through life son”

 

They don't allow VOIP numbers. Unless they've changed that in the 5 months since I signed up. Tried GV and two old GrooVe IP numbers that are still active, had to use my real number. No biggie, because I'm not hiding from the Feds or anything, nor do I make $250k/yr and in a position where a data breach would link me to furry tentacle porn or anything.

 

Damnit, I wish I didn't retire that gif now

 

You shouldn't have have to justify not wanting to be spied on.

 

Affective Science & Health Laboratory [A37YTRXG1FWGX7] Follow-up survey about thoughts, feelings, and current events(~ 25 minutes) - $3.50 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$17.45 / hour
00:12:02 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 6 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [230822-230233] DoesNotExist ; Inc: [-257189321-230233] Exists ;

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Conversionxl LLC [ANDVDK73INIIA] Jul 1: Staywell Beauty Press Release - Rate sentences; Test length: 3 blocks - $2.50 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$31.03 / hour
00:04:50 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: 5 minutes ago)
Qualifications: Copytesting-General EqualTo 1; Location In US;

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I have the right to privacy and so do you. You should never feel like it's okay 'because I have nothing to hide'. That's like taking a piss while being watched. Sure you aren't doing anything wrong but you would still like privacy.

 

Title: Need Asian American to answer a short survey about your experience | PANDA
Requester: Pauline Ho [AOL0IGWIIOHYA]
TurkerView: [ $ / hour ]
Description: We want to learn about Asian or Asian Americans’ experiences during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Duration: 60 Min
Available: 1
Reward: $0.10
Qualifications:

[3QVO2PZ6OQKAD9MUO2RBYN6E4AFBQH]​

 

This would have been the most appropriate time to use it.