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Instead, participants are asked to opt-in to continue to the next phase of data collection. If they no longer can or want to be part of the project, participants are informed that they do not need to take any action: data is automatically destroyed after a given deadline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The rationale<\/strong> for adopting this \u2018opt-in\u2019 approach is to ensure that participants who remain in the project do so because they want to, and not because they feel obliged to, or are embarrassed to \u2018pull out\u2019. <strong>The risk to the researcher<\/strong> of \u2018losing\u2019 participants, in my view, <strong>is outweighed<\/strong> by the satisfaction of high-quality data, and sustained, pro-active participation: so far, over 90% of participants have actively chosen to remain in this study. 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