Using Prolific to recruit participants in India

[Ramya Maitreyee]

Hi.

I am new to using Prolific and I see that Prolific is limited to recruiting participants only in a few countries. Has anyone used Prolific to recruit participants (adults and children) in India?

Thanks.

Regards,

Ramya

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Regards,
Ramya Maitreyee
Researcher

Cross Linguistic Acquisition of Sentence Structure, ERC Funded

University of Liverpool
UK

[jkhart...@gmail.com]

I think users of Prolific must be 18+, so I don't think you could easily use it to recruit children. Some people have worked around this problem on AMT by hiring parents to put their children on, but that might be harder for older children. 

I don't think there is any restriction according to country, but there may or may not be many people from a particular country. You are right that there aren't many participants from India. I think if you make an account, you can get a current count of Indian participants. I don't recall my password, or I'd check for you.

Have you considered AMT? There used to be a lot of Indians on AMT, but I don't know if that's still the case. 

Joshua K Hartshorne

Assistant Professor

Boston College

[Josh de Leeuw]

I just checked on my prolific account and it said that there have been 0 active participants in the last 90 days who list their current country of residence as India. I'm surprised that it is literally 0, but it gave reasonable counts for other countries I tried.

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[Ramya Maitreyee]

Hi Joshua,

Thank you for your input. We hadn't thought about AMT but I think that might be a better portal for our study.

Best,

Ramya

[Ramya Maitreyee]

Thank you Josh for your input. Could you please tell me how did you check country-wise demographics as I wasn't able to customize my search on the demographics tab.

Thanks.

Regards,

Ramya

On Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:20:15 UTC+1, Josh de Leeuw wrote:

I just checked on my prolific account and it said that there have been 0 active participants in the last 90 days who list their current country of residence as India. I'm surprised that it is literally 0, but it gave reasonable counts for other countries I tried.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:13 PM jkhart...@gmail.com <jkhart...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think users of Prolific must be 18+, so I don't think you could easily use it to recruit children. Some people have worked around this problem on AMT by hiring parents to put their children on, but that might be harder for older children. 

I don't think there is any restriction according to country, but there may or may not be many people from a particular country. You are right that there aren't many participants from India. I think if you make an account, you can get a current count of Indian participants. I don't recall my password, or I'd check for you.

Have you considered AMT? There used to be a lot of Indians on AMT, but I don't know if that's still the case. 

Joshua K Hartshorne

Assistant Professor

Boston College

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[jkhart...@gmail.com]

Dear Ramya,

I don't know if you found the answer yet. It looks like what you need to do is start creating a new experiment (Studies -> New Study). Scroll down to the section on "Audience". Select "I want to apply a custom prescreening". Then put in whatever demographics you want (doesn't have to just be nationality) and Prolific will tell you how many users matching that profile visited in the last 90 days. 

However, with specific reference to India, it seems that Prolific is only currently available in OECD countries (excluding Turkey). That doesn't seem to include India. 

[ramya.m...@gmail.com]

Thank you Josh for the input. Yes, unfortunately, Prolific isn't available in India. We will have to use AMT & institute specific recruitment portals.

Regards,

Ramya