Electomanía panel draws 11,000 responses in 24 hours

Electomanía has closed a panel with more than 11,000 responses in less than 24 hours, a figure the organisation itself describes as an all-time participation record. The raw number needs qualifying: invalid responses and bot attempts have to be discounted, and it is by no means equivalent to a representative survey.

## An open panel with more than 11,000 responses

The Spanish polling outlet **Electomanía** has closed the fieldwork of a panel with more than **11,000** responses in less than **24 hours**. The organisation presents it as an all-time participation record for that format. It also warns that invalid responses and attempts by bots to skew the results must be subtracted from that figure.

The clean count, once the data has been filtered, will be lower.

## It is not a representative survey

A panel of this kind is open to anyone who wants to respond, with no quota or identity checks. That makes it a thermometer of mobilisation.

Its results cannot be projected onto the population as a whole the way those of a survey with a probabilistic sample can. They measure those who chose to answer, and that is not a snapshot of the country.

## What the record measures and what it doesn't

More than 11,000 responses in less than a day is a high volume for an open form. The easier it is to take part, the easier it is to slip in invalid responses: hence the warning about bots.

The final, cleaned-up figure will be less striking than the raw one. And it will keep measuring the same thing: how many people are willing to answer and how quickly, not how many they represent.