{
  "id": 30695,
  "title": "Randomized Search Order",
  "url": "/competitions/expedia-personalized-sort/discussion/30695",
  "author_name": "Jason Abaluck",
  "post_date": "2017-03-26T20:24:46.983000",
  "votes": 0,
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  "content": "<p>I had a couple questions about the randomized search order treatment:</p>\n\n<p>1) Were consumers told prior to seeing the search results that the search order would be random?  In other words, did they understand that it was random or might they assume that Expedia was ordering it based on some \"special sauce\" not observable to them?</p>\n\n<p>2) After viewing the search results, did consumers have the option of changing the sort order of the results, for example to sort by price?  If so, would that be recorded as a separate search impression?</p>\n\n<p>Thanks!\nJason</p>",
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      "content": "<p>I had a couple questions about the randomized search order treatment:</p>\n\n<p>1) Were consumers told prior to seeing the search results that the search order would be random?  In other words, did they understand that it was random or might they assume that Expedia was ordering it based on some \"special sauce\" not observable to them?</p>\n\n<p>2) After viewing the search results, did consumers have the option of changing the sort order of the results, for example to sort by price?  If so, would that be recorded as a separate search impression?</p>\n\n<p>Thanks!\nJason</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I had a couple questions about the randomized search order treatment:\n\n1) Were consumers told prior to seeing the search results that the search order would be random?  In other words, did they understand that it was random or might they assume that Expedia was ordering it based on some \"special sauce\" not observable to them?\n\n2) After viewing the search results, did consumers have the option of changing the sort order of the results, for example to sort by price?  If so, would that be recorded as a separate search impression?\n\nThanks!\nJason"
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    "170636": "I had a couple questions about the randomized search order treatment:\n\n1) Were consumers told prior to seeing the search results that the search order would be random?  In other words, did they understand that it was random or might they assume that Expedia was ordering it based on some \"special sauce\" not observable to them?\n\n2) After viewing the search results, did consumers have the option of changing the sort order of the results, for example to sort by price?  If so, would that be recorded as a separate search impression?\n\nThanks!\nJason"
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