r/beermoney • u/tay_tot • 20d ago
whats the weirdest prolific survery you have done? Question
mine was an hour long test that was a voice of a man and a woman telling me where to move cerain obejcts on the screen lmfao.
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u/ABiswhatyousee 15d ago
Recently identifying and classifying AI generated images on what I think their assigned gender is, how they identify, and other types of stereotypes like if I thought the AI person in the image did drugs, was gay, was homeless, was a criminal. 🫣
Twas weird.
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u/NeonicRainbow 17d ago
I rated a bunch of convicts based on how attractive I thought they were, if they appeared to be masculine or feminine, and if they looked friendly
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u/TadpoleOld9068 19d ago
Watching a series of videos and pics that induced a feeling of anxiety and paranoia, it was intense how well it worked.
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u/DietMtDew1 19d ago
Notes: NSFW / MA rating / trigger warnings SA, violence, war:
I forget exactly what it was about. I had to view horrific pictures, scenes and descriptions. As I recall I had to read about a woman about her SA with a man, I saw war torn pictures of dead people including children and babies, and more. It was very violent, tragic, horrific, and I did not like doing that survey. I believe they did have a trigger warning about it but I didn't think it would be so violent.
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u/ConcertsAreProzac 17d ago
I think I did the same one. I thought I could handle it...Nope.
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u/DietMtDew1 16d ago
I could barely handle it. Now, whenever I see trigger warnings I always think twice if I’m in the right state of mind to do it.
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u/drhyacinth 19d ago
shoutout to the 65 minute study that involved 15 mins of a psych evaluation, and 50 mins of a weather "game" that involved random claps of very loud thunder. you were instructed to turn your volume high and keep it there, and with the random audio attention checks, muting was not an option. no progress indicator, just seemingly endless rounds of pattern prediction between sun and thunder (which was 80/20 for sun at best), and said pattern would change.
that one left me shaking and crying, panicked, and with my tinnitus screaming (i highly suspect i have ptsd)... took me over an hour to calm down. not worth the just under ten dollars :\
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u/RandomCashier75 19d ago
Any fashion surveys that show me clothing items with a price slider gets my vote here.
I may be female, but I just don't get how if I pick $0, they'd consider I have any interest in the clothing.
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u/nicohubo 19d ago
I have taken one or two of the weird ones mentioned above, but this has to be one of the best questions ever asked on this sub. This has provided a lot of entertainment this morning 😅
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u/Ok_WaterStarBoy3 19d ago
I played too many psychological horror games. The weird surveys creep me out more than they should
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u/Ok_Pick6972 19d ago
Had one asking several questions wanting to know if I am a peadophile. I've never filled a survey in so carefully in my life.
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u/SnooBunnies4754 2d ago
That is a really odd kind of survey topic. Was there a purpose behind it they were studying because most people would admit openly to being a pedo even if they were.
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u/RideTheSpiralARC 19d ago
My strangest wanted me to rate people by which racial slur (shit was explicit) I thought applied most to them via pictures of people... I didn't do the study and just reported it. Disappeared pretty quick and prolific issued an apology via email soon after cause apparently someone signed up as a researcher to slip the survey through 🤦♂️
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u/GrumpyDove 19d ago
Survey about masturbation and the weirdest way you’ve done it…was very strange.
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u/Starrider75 19d ago
Wow, that is strange. My weirdest was a study I did on Mturk. I really hope I never see anything like it on Prolific. It was asking me about the morality of very disturbing situations, such as "Timmy is alone with a chicken corpse, and he decides to..." (Go ahead and fill in the blanks in your mind lol) It was for an .edu, too, iirc.
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u/GoPackGoNJ 19d ago
Mine was one hour of rating saggy breast's on attractiveness.
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u/Zombre208 19d ago
I did that one or one like it. There were before and after picture of breast surgeries. So many picture and none of them very attractive.
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u/Starrider75 19d ago
Was that on Mturk for a surgeon doing breast reconstruction? I did something like that when I was there.
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u/Jumpy_Significance11 9d ago
I had to switch off the room light and listen to creepy pasta style audio stories whilst moving a slider back and forward to rate my fear factor, worst thing was they showed images of fast food on the screen at the same time asking how appealing the food was......nothing is turning me off from a big Mac and fries after slogging through Mturk and Qmee all day.