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Re:Ask HN: Would You Accept a Trial/Exploratory Week Before ... by sethammons on Friday February 22, 2019 @07:29AM (#19224744)
Targeting users to answer the survey pollutes it's results.
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Re:Ask HN: Would You Accept a Trial/Exploratory Week Before ... by FrankZappa42 on Friday February 22, 2019 @07:35AM (#19224778)
Removing my comment, just curious how does it pollute the results? it’s my first time launching a survey :)
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Re:Ask HN: Would You Accept a Trial/Exploratory Week Before ... by sethammons on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:03AM (#19224921)
It looks like: "I like that answer, please bias my survey findings!" Might have been n=1 and you might have asked the same of someone who answered different. Ideally you get random sampling to respond.
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Re:Ask HN: Would You Accept a Trial/Exploratory Week Before ... by FrankZappa42 on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:34AM (#19225099)
thank you!
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