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[bug?] no email addresses on any "other" responses

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Description

Bug Description

maybe this is a bug, maybe it's a coincidence...

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every response i got on this survey that includes free-form text (from "other" on a select/multi-select) does not have an email address associated with the person

my hunch is there's some bug in how we aggregate events for partial surveys?

How to reproduce

i have not tried to reproduce this, but internally, see survey linked above

Debug info
- [ ] PostHog Cloud, Debug information: [please copy/paste from https://us.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables or https://eu.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables]
- [ ] PostHog Hobby self-hosted with `docker compose`, version/commit: [please provide]
- [ ] PostHog self-hosted with Kubernetes (deprecated, see [`Sunsetting Kubernetes support`](https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog)), version/commit: [please provide]

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Research direction

The issue names no files or tests; start with the linked survey and inspect how responses containing “other” free-form text are associated with email addresses, especially during partial-survey event aggregation. Establish a reproducible case and verify that affected responses retain the correct email association.

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Assessment

Domain
analytics, data
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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