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I've tried this out and I really like it! It's cool to see different people's opinions in an anonymous format. You're not biased by other people's choices before you answer, and you can skip as well. Honestly if more people used it I think you'd get a very accurate response of how the average person thinks!

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Really appreciate you trying it out.

The answer-before-results flow was intentional to avoid anchoring, and the skip option is there to keep participation low pressure.

On accuracy, I’m a bit cautious. Since it’s self selected, it won’t be statistically representative. The hope is that with enough diverse participation, it can still produce meaningful directional signal.

That tradeoff between accessibility and representativeness is basically the core experiment.

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