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Question Sets and All Paths

I was nerd-sniped with a question at work the other day. The set up was like this, imagine a survey where all of the questions have yes-no answers. Some of the answers are terminating, so if you an…

The ask was a formula to articulate the total number of potential unique answer sets. This reminds me of a bit of product advice from Jennifer Pahlka, you should have eliminating questions earlier in the form. So asking the terminating questions earlier reduces the potential number of permutations you ultimately have in your data as well.

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