That’s a good point, could well have happened, and is something we should consider changing.
The questions were split into a few pages, and people’s answers got saved when they clicked the ‘Continue’ button at the bottom of each page—so if they only submitted 2 pages, only those pages would be saved. We searched for retakes and saw a small number which we deleted.
I looked for identical names or email addresses, and then manually checked them. The other thing we could do would be to record people’s IP addresses and look for identical ones. However I chose not to record them due to privacy concerns. I would promise not to use them to try guessing who people are, and this identifying data never gets shared with anyone but me—I’d appreciate feedback on whether people would be comfortable with IP addresses getting recorded given this.
That’s a good point, could well have happened, and is something we should consider changing.
The questions were split into a few pages, and people’s answers got saved when they clicked the ‘Continue’ button at the bottom of each page—so if they only submitted 2 pages, only those pages would be saved. We searched for retakes and saw a small number which we deleted.
Oh cool. How were you able to identify duplicates?
I looked for identical names or email addresses, and then manually checked them. The other thing we could do would be to record people’s IP addresses and look for identical ones. However I chose not to record them due to privacy concerns. I would promise not to use them to try guessing who people are, and this identifying data never gets shared with anyone but me—I’d appreciate feedback on whether people would be comfortable with IP addresses getting recorded given this.