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No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls

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  1. Ellis_dev · · focus · HN ↗
    The lure of a few bucks for minimal effort always attracts fraud. Our own survey data is consistently tainted by bots and click-farmers.
    1. tgv · · focus · HN ↗
      Also by "straight-liners," as we call them: people who just click items in a straight line to finish asap. And then there are the nonsense respondents. Don't trust poll data.
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