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The circulation of questionnaires to strangers always involves a mixture of etiquette and expediency. Here is a study which challenges the usual assumption that the questionnaires must remain anonymous to ensure candidness and enhance the validity of the responses. However, it points out that the preservation of anonymity may be advantageous for other reasons.
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Leonard I. Pearlin (1961) studied this question.
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