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Well, this one is non-obvious:

> Label text should be placed within the bounds of the text field box

And I'm perfectly fine with Google spending unreasonable amounts of their money so I can learn lightly-valuable facts like this... As long as people don't mass adopt their findings before they get repeated.

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This one, I think, is them just not willing to admit their mistake. I wouldn't be surprised if the experiment went like this: "Here are the inputs with only underline. In one of them the label is inside the input". In this case sure, users will better understand it's an input if the label is inside.

You are just literally making things up at this point…

Well, the 3 options they tested are on your link. It is a very limited set, but this one specific mistake isn't there.

I would still hold to the obvious (label above or left of the widget) until it is replicated, as the study isn't of very high quality.

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