Pratt-Chapman and colleagues asked for the posts to be taken down, but it was too late. The problem was some individuals shared the link on their social media pages. Pratt-Chapman and colleagues had included a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA), and only shared the survey link with trusted organizations and community members.
1 “We noticed an unusually high number of respondents the first three days the study was open,” reports Mandi Pratt-Chapman, PhD, the study’s lead author and associate center director of patient-centered initiatives and health equity at the GW Cancer Center in Washington, DC. When a group of researchers used an online survey to learn how the COVID-19 pandemic had affected cancer survivors, the data revealed suspicious patterns almost immediately.
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