Patent Document ID: 9639816
Application ID: 13662347

Base Claim:
1. A method in a computing system, having a processor and memory, comprising: causing by the computing system to be presented via a network connection device to each of a plurality of people: a plurality of unlikely questions, each of whose affirmative answer is accurate for only a small percentage of the population, a fabrication gauge question whose affirmative answer is accurate for a known percentage of the population regardless of whether it is answered accurately by people to whom it is posed, and at least one substantive question; accessing, via the memory, a statistical expectation attributed to an affirmative answer to the fabrication gauge question; for each of the plurality of people: receiving, by the computing system, responses to the posed questions provided by the person; storing, in the memory, an identifier for the person among a set of person identifiers, the identifier associated with the responses; calculating, by the processor, a first percentage of the plurality of people who answered the fabrication gauge question in the affirmative; determining by the processor that the calculated first percentage exceeds the statistical expectation; determining, with the processor, for each person identifier, a number of unlikely questions to which the identified person answered affirmatively; with the processor, discarding person identifiers from the set of person identifiers by: (a) identifying, among the set of person identifiers, a proper subset associated with the largest number of unlikely questions answered affirmatively; (b) storing, in the memory, an indication to discard one or more of the person identifiers in the proper subset; (c) calculating a second percentage of people associated with undiscarded person identifiers who answered the fabrication gauge question in the affirmative; and (d) iteratively repeating (a)-(c) until the second percentage is within a predetermined range of the known percentage; and reporting answers to the at least one substantive question for only people among the plurality of people whose person identifiers are undiscarded.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the unlikely questions and fabrication gauge questions are caused to be posed in same survey with routing questions for routing people to further surveys for which they are expected to qualify.