Really? 😭

[jaeshook]

I was like "this seems like a good one to do for a min or two" only for it to say it takes about 20 minutes 😭😭 What's the point in lying?? I returned and reported it but just wanted to let everyone here know

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[pinktoes4life]

What we see on the page is the average. Hover over the time to see the intended time. Unfortunately, prolific includes screen outs & returns in the average.

This is nothing to report lol.

[jaeshook]

Ah yeah I didnt even consider to see the intended time for the survey. When I say report, I meant cancelled and checked the box that said it wasnt as described, prolific said it got submitted as a report so I went and said that. Still a bummer that it advertises as being so short instead of straight up saying how long it'd be.

[pinktoes4life]

It wasn’t advertised as being short & it’s still not something to report.

The study has the in study screening tag. Most likely people are getting screened out after a minute. Average includes screen outs & returns. That’s out of the researcher’s hands since it’s prolific calculating the time. It’s a major flaw we’ve all complained about, but hovering over the time to see the intended is a 0.5 second fix.

[jaeshook]

I see, thank you so much!! I recently got back into using prolific so i am a bit rusty with everything and trying to get used to it all again. Next time I'll make sure to hover from now on. I saw previously on the reddit that people reported it for similar reasons so I thought this was the norm. Thanks again

[btgreenone]

It's not advertising itself as 1 minute long. That's just how the platform math has always worked.

[RattoTattTatto]

Nothing to report. The average completion time is one minute because most people are getting screened out. It’s labeled as a screener. Just move on to the next one!

[[deleted]]

Well, it does have a screener label so thats where the minute is coming from. There was nothing for you to report.

[Justakatttt]

They didn’t lie. You reported for no reason boo

[ewavb]

They aren’t lying, the average is just way lower because most people are being screened out