Summary: Learn to spot and filter out survey bots’ responses before analysis so fake data doesn’t distort your findings.
If you distribute surveys through open channels like social media, online communities, or public links, there’s a good chance some of your responses aren’t coming from real participants. Instead, they may be coming from survey bots, which have become an increasingly common problem for researchers.
If bot responses remain in your final dataset, they can distort your findings and lead you toward the wrong conclusions because they simply don’t reflect the needs and opinions of real people. For that reason, bot screening should be a standard part of survey-data cleaning. However, survey-bot responses can sometimes be difficult to spot because they can look perfectly normal to an untrained eye.
What Are Survey Bots?
Survey bots are automated programs, or people using automation tools, that fill out surveys with fraudulent responses.
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