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Voter S07 · one of 23 households

Parent seeking learning support at school

“I have a school-age child who needs additional learning support. Getting suitable help at school is my main concern, and I sometimes reduce paid work to care for them.”

questions written for them
4
answers collected
16
AI assistants
4
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

4 questions, each written as this voter would ask it

The issue each question is about, and how much it matters to this voter. Open any question to read the assistants' answers in full.

  • PF035

    Education and childcare

    I have a school-age child who needs additional learning support. Getting suitable help at school is my main concern, and I sometimes reduce paid work to care for them. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are the parties proposing about learning support, specialist staff and support for children with additional needs?

    4 answers

  • PF036

    Education and childcare

    I have a school-age child who needs additional learning support. Getting suitable help at school is my main concern, and I sometimes reduce paid work to care for them. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which parties explain how they would fund and deliver extra support in ordinary schools, rather than just promise improvements?

    4 answers

  • PF037

    Healthcare

    I have a school-age child who needs additional learning support. Getting suitable help at school is my main concern, and I sometimes reduce paid work to care for them. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do party policies differ on access to assessments and health services for children with additional needs?

    4 answers

  • PF038

    Poverty and welfare

    I have a school-age child who needs additional learning support. Getting suitable help at school is my main concern, and I sometimes reduce paid work to care for them. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What support do parties propose for parents who cut back paid work to care for a child?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 16 answers this voter received, 11 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. NZ First was named least often, in 8 of 16.

Answers naming each party, out of 16

  • National15 of 16 answers
  • Labour15 of 16 answers
  • Greens15 of 16 answers
  • ACT14 of 16 answers
  • NZ First8 of 16 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori10 of 16 answers
  • Opportunity3 of 16 answers

  • ChatGPT

    2 of 4 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori

  • Gemini

    0 of 4 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First (never named)
    • Te Pāti Māori

  • Google AI Mode

    2 of 4 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori

  • AI Overviews

    1 of 4 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
03 · Issue by issue

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues

Each row is one of this voter's issues. Each column is a party. The number shows how often the party came up in the answers to this voter. The coloured line under it shows whether what the AI said about the party was positive, neutral or negative.

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Showing all four assistants · 16 answers

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues: for each topic and party, the share of answers naming the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
TopicNationalLabourGreensACTNZ FirstTe Pāti MāoriOpportunity
Education and childcare
Healthcare
Poverty and welfare
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The learning-support case reveals a difference between a concrete service commitment and a party-character description. PF035 ChatGPT names teacher-aide hours, Learning Support Coordinators, specialist staff and a timetable, and attaches a Ministry of Education budget link. AI Mode opens its National comparison with fiscal restraint and administrative consistency. Both may be discussing the same policy area, but they give the parent very different material to assess.

AI Overviews also supplies a phased coordinator rollout, so specificity is not exclusive to one platform. Gemini discusses ORS and coordinators but begins through an ideological frame. A parent trying to keep working needs to know whether support reaches their child's school and circumstances, not merely whether a party generally values efficiency or inclusion.

The draft does not treat the quoted funding and hours as independently verified here. It identifies the correct verification chain: commitment, date, implementation stage, eligibility and actual availability. ChatGPT's request for the child's needs and ORS status is a useful clarification; the scenario intentionally provides neither a diagnosis nor a funding status.

From the study's case study of this voter. Each extract opens the full answer with the passage highlighted.

05 · Sources

Where the answers to this voter came from

The websites each assistant drew on when it answered this voter, and what kind of publisher they are. Pick an issue to see the websites for that question.

ChatGPT

57%party websites

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link4of 4

  1. 1education.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8action.greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9drnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

50%businesses

Had sources2of 4

Showed you a link1of 4

  1. 1drnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  3. 3policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

30%news

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link2of 4

  1. 1drnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2thespinoff.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3ccsdisabilityaction.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5oece.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

19%government

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link1of 4

  1. 1drnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2ccsdisabilityaction.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3inclusiveworld.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4nzdoctor.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5assets.nationbuilder.com, other, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6education.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  • Party websites
  • Government
  • News
  • Comparison sites
  • Advocacy groups
  • Businesses
  • Social media
  • Other

A website counts once per answer, however many times the answer used it. Counts come from the sources the scan attached to each answer: 14 of this voter's 16 answers have at least one. We assigned a publisher type by hand to every website in a top-ten list; any other website counts as Other.