One of potential problems in encouraging survey respondents to optimize their answers is that
a. after optimizing for several answers, respondents get into the habit of acquiescing.
b. people may try to provide more detail than they can give accurately, so they introduce errors into their answers.
c. people often confuse optimizing and nondifferentiation.
d. satisficing typically works better for attitude questions than for memory questions.
B
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