What each cell measures
Each cell compares this vendor's synthetic responses against real human respondents in that demographic subgroup —
published survey ground truth, not a model's guess about the subgroup.
Higher = closer to how that real subgroup actually answered.
Demographic conditioning here is not stereotyping: every conditioned
score is checked against what real subgroup members said, not against
assumptions about them — and where the vendor's output diverges from
the real subgroup, the score drops.
- globalopinionqa — ground truth: Durmus et al. 2023, Anthropic — llm_global_opinions
- opinionsqa — ground truth: Santurkar et al., ICML 2023 — Whose Opinions Do LLMs Reflect? (derived from Pew American Trends Panel)
- subpop — ground truth: Suh et al., ACL 2025 — SubPOP: Subpopulation-Level Opinion Prediction
Low-n cells:
cells with n < 30 are shown muted and tagged low n — suggestive only instead of color-graded; they are
reported for transparency, not as findings.
CIs:
"no CI — single run" marks point estimates from a single run with no
confidence interval yet; treat the uncertainty as unknown, never zero.
Multiple comparisons:
with this many subgroup cells, a few extreme cells are expected by
chance alone — read patterns across a dimension, not single cells.
No demographic conditioning data has been published for this vendor yet. The
question-type matrix above shows topic-level parity; subgroup rows fill in
once SynthPanel-style conditioned runs land.