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30% -- fraudulent or suspicious respondent rate for online sample sources (market research panels) (2025)

2025  · Greenbook

Greenbook flagged more than 30% of respondents across six leading online sample sources as suspicious or outright fraudulent.

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  • Based on six leading online sample sources
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30%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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online sample sources (market research panels)
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Greenbook Primary Tier B
https://www.panoplai.com/blog/a-buyers-guide-to-ai-insights-12-questions-every-team-should-ask-befor… ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
A Buyer's Guide to AI Insights: 12 questions every team should ask before acting on AI customer insights
AI-powered customer understanding tools are everywhere right now — from synthetic data and digital twins to AI-generated insights that promise speed, scale, and cost efficiency. But there’s an uncomfortable reality underneath the hype: our “ground truth” is already under pressure. In a recent resear…
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online sample sources (market research panels): 30% fraudulent or suspicious respondent rate. Source: Greenbook (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/greenbook-fraudulent-respondents-online-samples
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