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4 sourced facts about online survey panels and the people who answer them, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
Answerabout 4% to 7%, depending on the source
Panels recruited by mailing to random addresses had about 1% bogus respondents in each of the two tested.
Source: Pew Research Center, Assessing the Risks to Online Polls From Bogus Respondents (2019) pewresearch.org
Answer12%
The actual share of Americans with that license rounds to 0%.
Source: Pew Research Center, Online opt-in polls can produce misleading results, especially for young people and Hispanic adults (2022) pewresearch.org
Answer84%
87% of bogus respondents also passed the check for speeding through the survey.
Source: Pew Research Center, Assessing the Risks to Online Polls From Bogus Respondents (2019) pewresearch.org
Answer94%
Phone recruitment had averaged about half signing up.
Source: Pew Research Center, Q&A: Why and how we expanded our American Trends Panel (2018) pewresearch.org