Pew’s American Trends Panel Wave 190 reports a cumulative recruitment/participation rate of just 3% alongside a survey‑level response of 87% and a margin of error of ±1.9 percentage points. That low cumulative rate is a concrete, checkable datum about modern panel representativeness.
— Low cumulative recruitment rates for national panels change how journalists, policymakers and researchers should weight headline poll claims about public attitudes.
The methodology states the cumulative response rate is 3% for ATP Wave 190 (survey conducted March 23–29, 2026; n=3,507), a publicly reported metric in the article.