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> They’re using a tool they’re paid to work on. That’s always a special case.

FWIW, the industry term for this is "dogfooding", and it's usually seen as a predictor of high quality tool.




There’s two issues here: getting paid to work on a product; using the product yourself. People often do one without much of the other. People dogfooding do both.

For the original question, a survey might want to separate these two. One just says people are working on a product. Why could be any reason, like just making money. People using it, but not paid to, are more valuable as reviewers.




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