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Catwhoorg said:
For the 95% its probably simple laziness.
If you had a check a box so they would NOT be included in research, I would bet a good dinner that very few would check the box.
This sort of opt out opt/in is used all the time in marketing e-mails.
I think it's more about the salesmanship of the DCO.
You have to check one box or the other in the presence of the DCO who asks you each and every time they perform a test if you consent to research. If you do, you check a box; if you don't, you check a box.
In OOC testing at home, one often gets the same DCO. Once they've tested you a few times, they're not above falling into normal human routine and assuming that b/c you declined to consent to research three times previously, you'll decline now and so they don't even try to encourage you into it. In fact, during my last OOC control in 2014, the DCO basically pre-answered the question for me b/c she was so accustomed to my refusal to consent to research. USADA had started using ipads instead of paper forms by that point, so you couldn't even tick a box...you had to verbalize your answer. And for whatever reason, at that point when she assumed that I was going to continue to decline to participate, I figured I'd better start participating finally.
Just an observation on how the actual sample collection takes place...
But yeah, I really believe the ADOs are missing the chance to secure more test samples by not providing the DCOs w/ at least a bit of sales-training as part of their continuing education. B/c if they don't even try to encourage recalcitrant RTP-athletes to donate their pee to the research cause, then the flood of specimens will slow to a trickle...