Your objection reminded me of when I was a senior in college, and for independent study credit I helped a couple of postdocs with a psychology paper they were w

Your objection reminded me of when I was a senior in college, and for independent study credit I helped a couple of postdocs with a psychology paper they were writing. They were concerned with researcher bias in category selection in surveys. Good for them! But their solution was to offer much more free form surveys and then have us, the researchers, spend many, many hours examining the individual surveys and picking categories to make up to fit the responses. I completely failed to see how this fixed anything as it was still us, the researchers, choosing the categories, and they failed to seem to want to comprehend that there might be a problem with their approach. The other undergrad who was also working with us approached me and thought we should ask for our names on the paper. I told him I didn't want my name associated in any way, but that he should shoot for the moon.