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by conductr 2036 days ago
I took the survey. I see the value in this. Simply because aesthetics are important (big concern for patient) and maybe you could use data to help them make a big decision in a data driven way on which type of surgery to choose.

As with other surveys like this, and perhaps eye exams, I found myself several times thinking "these two look the same", or "I have no obvious preference", or "I like both". I'm bringing it up because I think that's valuable data that should be considered.

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Thank you very much for your time taking part in the survey and your great feedback. That is exactly our goal - to help patients with decision making. Patients often are quite unsure about what is the aesthetically best option for them and want to know what people prefer in general - and the least we should be able to do for patients is give the good and research-backed advice.

We know that some picture combinations look very similar - however there are no duplicates in the survey. However of course, sometimes it is quite difficult to make a decision. But we also measure the time of every decision - so in the end we will be able to tell which aspects are quite obvious and therefore quick and easy to decide - and which are not.

Thank you for your support!

Good to hear you thought of it, I would say that due to load time, the response measure should be suspect. Using myself as an example, I clicked, read some news, came back and clicked, go get a drink, etc. Took me over an hour to finish.
Really? I am super sorry for that inconvenience - and even more thankful that you took the time to finish despite these enormous loading times. I will try my best to improve that! Thank you so much for that feedback!
Load times for me are super slow also. I managed to get half way through. Will my partial survey still help?
Thank you so much for your effort and support! I have tried to improve the code and hope that performance is significantly better now. I am really sorry for the inconvenience! The good thing is that due to the study design and the database architecture, every vote (even if you clicked just one image) is taken into the statistic! So every click helps! Thank you so much for your effort! Greetings from Germany :-)