Synthetic respondents and the illusion of human data

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<p>Online behavioral research assumes that coherent, internally consistent responses indicate useful human data. This assumption is now challenged by autonomous AI agents, which achieve 99.8% pass rates on attention checks while generating psychometrically sound, hypothesis-confirming data indistinguishable from careful human work. The contamination is already widespread—approximately one-third of survey participa...

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10.31234/osf.io/6q9ps_v1