Response rate is the share of invited people who actually answered. Nonresponse bias is what happens when the people who skip the survey differ from the people who take it in a way that moves your result.
A low rate is not automatically a problem. An uncorrected difference between responders and non-responders is. The rate is a warning light, not the fault itself.
If responders and non-responders look alike on the things you measure, a small response can still describe the group fairly. Random nonresponse costs you sample size. Systematic nonresponse costs you accuracy, and only the second one bends the answer.
The hard part is that you usually cannot see non-responders at all, which is exactly why the bias slips through unnoticed.
When those groups dominate the responses, the survey quietly becomes their survey, no matter how many invitations you sent.
The people who answer your survey are a different crowd from the people who ignore it. If you forget that, the crowd becomes the finding.
Send reminders, keep the survey short, and remove barriers such as forced logins. These raise the rate and shrink the opportunity for bias to collect.
Then compare responders to known totals on age, device, or tenure. If the mismatch is large, report it or weight the responses to match the group. Naming the gap beats hiding it.
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