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Users should not be allowed to select their treatments; it defeats randomization, which is what allows causal inference.



Sure, they'll be more predictive that way, and simultaneously it's valuable to not piss off your customers.


In that case I would take them out of the experiment and impute the censored data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censoring_(statistics)




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