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I have a few friends working at CultureAmp (who - amongst other things - do anonymous employee surveys).

Management can 'drill down' to get information on how specific teams responded.

One of the things they mentioned doing is using a statistical (differential privacy?) model to limit the depth, to prevent any specific persons responses being revealed unless it was shared with a substantial number of other responses.

Surprisingly difficult when you consider e.g. a team lead reading a statement like "of the 10 people in your team, one is highly dissatisfied with management" - they have personal knowledge of the situation and are going to know which person it is.



Couldn't this be lessened by intentionally introducing false information, e.g. specifying that 10% of the time the response will be randomized?




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