Nishi Compare -- Frontier Radar: Surveys and Polls

Where the 2025/26 research frontier is moving, and where Nishi should test, deepen, or research next.

How this works. The nishi researcher banked the current (2024-2026) frontier for this domain over sovereign TLS (keyless OpenAlex/arXiv). For each capability axis this radar measures frontier momentum = how often the frontier corpus mentions it, times our organ presence (probed on disk). Absent + hot = a research opportunity / where to test. Corpus measured: 4194304 bytes. Generated by nx_swcompare_gapmap over a data-only domain spec (surveys.q + surveys.axes) — zero domain-specific code.

Top research opportunities (the 2025/26 frontier is active here and Nishi has no organ yet):

Open-text answer analysis — frontier momentum 1910
Conversational LLM surveys — frontier momentum 99
Panel recruitment + sampling — frontier momentum 76
Nonresponse + weighting — frontier momentum 67
Mixed-mode + offline capture — frontier momentum 25
Adaptive branching questionnaires — frontier momentum 21

Capability axis	Nishi organ	Frontier momentum (2025/26)	Signal
Open-text answer analysis	absent	1910 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Anonymity + k-floor aggregates	present	216 mentions	COVERED
Conversational LLM surveys	absent	99 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Pulse cadence wellbeing	present	77 mentions	COVERED
Panel recruitment + sampling	absent	76 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Nonresponse + weighting	absent	67 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Response quality + attention checks	present	44 mentions	COVERED
Mixed-mode + offline capture	absent	25 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Adaptive branching questionnaires	absent	21 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Ballot integrity (revote replaces)	present	18 mentions	COVERED
Welfare triage routing	present	7 mentions	COVERED
Aggregate visualization	present	6 mentions	COVERED

frontier momentum is a mechanical keyword count over real 2024-2026 works; our presence is probed on disk. A discovery signal, not a ranking of importance. Zero JS, zero trackers.

Frontier Radar — Surveys and Polls