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The Synthetic Data Ladder

Not all synthetic data is the same thing. It runs from harmless placeholder numbers up to models that answer as a specific person. Run this two-minute check to see which rung you are on, what to ask, and whether to trust it for your decision.

The rule: the bigger the claim, the harder the test.   The default: synthetic for direction, humans for decision.
Step 1

Which rung is your data on?

Pick the one that best describes what you have been handed.

Step 2

What is riding on the decision?

Be honest about the cost of being wrong.

Step 3

Five quick checks

Answer what you can. "Not sure" is a real and useful answer.

Your read
The research worth knowing

Durable evidence, not the daily debate

Two studies and two regulators worth reading before you trust any synthetic dataset.

Want to score your own synthetic data?

Knowsis built PRISM, a published framework that scores synthetic projection and imputation across five measured dimensions, so you can judge it on evidence rather than on faith.

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