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The participants had to express their preference on a four item scale (strongly prefer "A", prefer "A", prefer "B", strongly prefer "B") for one of these options.
The question is an optional one for prospective students to fill out on the newly designed application, and also offers a "prefer not to say" option.
For some sensitive questions, a "Prefer Not to Answer" option was available.
*Numbers vary owing to missing values, incorrectly completed surveys, or because participants selected a "prefer not to answer" option for income.
To minimize missing data due to browsing from screen to screen too quickly, a "Prefer not to answer" option was presented for every questionnaire item to identify purposely skipped questions.
Observations in which respondents selected a "prefer not to answer" option were excluded from analyses except for analyses of income and sharing where missing income data were substantial and responses separately categorized.
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