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by esafak 1076 days ago
Users should not be allowed to select their treatments; it defeats randomization, which is what allows causal inference.
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Sure, they'll be more predictive that way, and simultaneously it's valuable to not piss off your customers.
In that case I would take them out of the experiment and impute the censored data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censoring_(statistics)