Data Quality
2 posts tagged with “Data Quality”
AI ScreeningCognitive Tasks
Screening out AI participants: adding AI-agent detection tasks to your online study
A new set of short visual tasks in the paradigm library is built to catch a problem that ordinary attention checks miss — online participants that are actually autonomous AI agents. Here is what the tasks are, why they work, and how to add them to a study as a battery.
14 July 2026
ParadataMethodology
Can you trust web-collected data? Bots, inattentive responders, and what paradata can (and can't) tell you
You launch an online study and sessions arrive overnight — but how many are from real, attentive people? A practical, honest look at the two different problems (automated fraud and inattentive humans), the defences researchers actually use, and where process-level quality signals fit.
7 July 2026