One of the weirdest new uses of artificial intelligence in market research is to create “synthetic respondents” for surveys and qualitative interviews. The idea is to use information scraped from the Internet via AI’s large language models, construct a sample of synthetic people that matches the demographics of one’s target population, and then ask those…
If you read our article a few years back ago about COVID-19, you may have noticed some statistics we cited that seemed odd and open to misinterpretation. That’s because instead of reporting the percentage of respondents who did or said something, we reported the mean of all survey respondents’ answers to a numeric scale. We…
It was a long, arduous process (and still is), but it was worth it: Versta Research has been awarded certification for compliance to ISO 27001! This is one of the most widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standards. Certification puts Versta Research among a small handful of market research and insights firms that undergo…
Here are four types of “attention checks” to build into your questionnaires and analysis in order to assess whether respondents are fully engaged in answering your survey.
It might seem obvious that inattentive survey respondents should deleted from your data. Think again. Here’s why a “light touch” during data quality review is best.
Summer is the perfect time for professional development and training in market research methods because short course offerings in survey and questionnaire design are plentiful.
The word “material” points to a useful concept, and provides a welcome corrective to an obsessive and misguided focus on statistical significance.
Personas are fictional representations of customer types, but they reflect the demographics, behaviors, goals, and motivations of people derived from real data.
In a test of the powers of AI, here is an impressive poem it wrote about market research. It’s worth a smile. But it’s not poetry.
A recent study shows that team translation is superior for accurate survey translation, but that less accurate translations will work just as well in terms of survey measurement.