02.04.12
Anonymous answers
If the Scottish Government is to identify identical responses to its referendum consultation in its external analysis, then why would it allow multiple anonymous responses to be made in the first place?
Furthermore, making responses anonymous seems to be placing the process in unnecessary jeopardy.
This is not such a sensitive issue that demands anonymity to protect those responding, and as such may open the consultation up to abuse.
These revelations will only act to undermine the consultation’s validity, especially if the results are very different from the responses to theUK’s consultation. Rumours of ‘rigged’ research could significantly weaken the impact of these results, even the responses which were neither anonymous or duplications.
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