Respondent Validation in Alchemer Surveys via Research Defender Follow

Fuel Cycle has created a template survey for Alchemer that collects metadata on survey respondents and automatically analyzes survey responses. The goal is to Identify fraudulent survey respondents and non-legitimate or thoughtless survey responses through automatic open-ended quality checks. This ultimately provides more reliable data collection and saves time while cleaning data.

These pages collect hidden metrics that help us determine whether to terminate and disqualify that response through Skip/Disqualification logic, based on how those metrics fill in.

The survey template includes APIs that call to Research Defender’s market research database and analysis tools, and the survey collects data quality metrics based on RD’s analyses. 

When combined with terminations based on Research Defender metrics, this technology benefits Community Screener Pages and External Panel Surveys. This is also useful for cleaning data on Community Surveys using Research Defender metrics, with less need to use terminations.

If you would like to add this to any survey, please contact your Fuel Cycle representative.

Once your rep adds the components to your survey, save the entire survey as an Alchemer template, so you can always copy over all hidden values, scripts, and default disqualifications.

To save a survey as a template...

1. Open the Research Defender Template survey in Alchemer.
2. Click Tools > Survey Settings.
   
3. Click Make this a template and manage which sub-accounts have access.
   
4. Click Save.

Make a copy of the template each time you wish to use it:

1. Click the three-dot icon to the right of any survey.
2. Click Copy.
3. Rename the copy.
4. Copy all parts of the template.
5. Program your survey within that re-named copy.