How to use Prolific to recruit participants for OpinionX stack ranking surveys
What is Prolific?
Prolific connects those doing research (academics, startups, data scientists, organizations) with their target participants. Participants earn rewards for participating in studies on Prolific. You can use integrate your OpinionX survey with Prolific, choose your target respondents and collect hundreds or thousands of responses quickly and easily.
Step 1: Collect Prolific IDs
Use an Identify block to collect participants' Prolific IDs. Choose the "Custom" identifier type and name it "ProlificID". The Identify block will then automatically associate this ID number against all voting data submitted by a participant.
Step 2: Insert your redirect Link
Grab your redirect URL from the 'Study Completion' section of your Prolific project:
Add that URL to your Finish Page Link, as shown in the screenshot below:
Note → You must be on the Analyze tier or higher to customize your survey's Finish Page. If you're a free user, add a Header block and display the "Prolific Completion Code" so that participants can then copy and paste this code back into Prolific once they've finished.
Step 3: Share your survey link
Click Share, copy your OpinionX survey link, and add it to your Prolific campaign.
Step 4: Create your recruitment project on Prolific
Prolific is super simple to use. Paste your OpinionX survey ID under the "Study ID" field, use any of 100+ demographic screeners to select the participants you need, then publish your study to the Prolific community. Here's more info on how Prolific works.
Step 5: Export your Prolific IDs from OpinionX
Export the answers to your Open Response block as a .csv once your survey is finished and use this spreadsheet to cross-check and approve incentives.
And that's everything you need to know to use Prolific to recruit your OpinionX survey participants. Any questions, just send us a message or email [email protected].