New Tools “Rescue” Failing Surveys with Synthetic Respondents (We Recommend Against This)

At a moment when our industry is scandalized by a panel provider having been indicted for selling fraudulent survey respondents, in comes another provider that is doing nearly the same thing with absolutely full disclosure. The catch? They are using AI to do it, and dressing it up with phrases like “contextually relevant” and “statistically…

Testing the Impact of Low Response Rates

Testing the Impact of Low Response Rates

Survey response rates, which are still a measure of data quality and survey success in our industry, continue to drop. Most online surveys of customers (one’s own customers) will garner response rates of two to three percent—and that is if you are lucky and if you do everything right. Rigorously executed phone surveys achieve miserably…