Data Quality & Fraud Prevention

Strategies to protect survey data quality and prevent fraud from bots, AI, and survey farms, plus how privacy laws shape data collection.

Market researcher and panel provider reviewing survey data together, protecting data integrity

Data Integrity Starts at the Door: How Market Researchers and Panel Providers Are Locking Out Fraud

In today’s AI-infiltrated market research landscape, data integrity isn’t just a benchmark—it’s a business imperative. Clients rely on insights that guide critical decisions, and anything less than high-integrity data threatens both the credibility of the research and the outcomes it’s meant to inform. Yet maintaining that integrity is harder than ever, thanks in part to the increasing

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Escape the Fraud Trap: A Proven Way to Cleaner Data

Online surveys have transformed market research. They’ve made consumer insights faster and more accessible, but they’ve also created real challenges for survey data quality. Researchers juggle multiple projects and tight deadlines. Meanwhile, professional survey takers, bots, and sophisticated fraud techniques threaten the validity of their findings. Traditional quality control often falls short. As a result,

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Meet dtect: The Proven Way to Fight Hidden Survey Fraud

Ready for exciting new developments in survey fraud detection? Quest Global Research Group Inc. (“QGR”) is the company behind the Quest Mindshare and Coleman Insights brands. For more than 20 years, we’ve navigated the ebb and flow of the market research industry through careful positioning and a consistent service offering. Throughout that time, we’ve made

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Corrupted data spilling into a trash bin, illustrating why researchers need to know how to prevent data fraud

Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Proven Cost of Hidden Fraud

Data fraud: two words that strike fear into any business that deals with data. Which, let’s face it, is 99.99% of businesses these days. That’s why knowing how to prevent data fraud has become essential. Data fraud is a nasty business. It involves unscrupulous people deliberately skewing data for personal or professional gain. For example,

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