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by minimaxir 2005 days ago
From a survey/data collection perspective, requiring an answer to a prompt will almost always result in garbage/inauthentic data.
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For anyone on here who needs to hear it, that also applies to harvesting my email before telling me what your product actually does. You'll get garbage/inauthentic data 100% of the time, and a lot of it if you're too insistent.