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invite a wide range of potential responses
Open (rather than closed) questions are more suited for interviews and questionnaires when the researcher is seeking to learn about the opinions, values etc., of respondents in terms of what is important to them and how they construe their experience (e.g., in idiographic research)
See: Question types
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