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= Solution

For $m_j$ exchangeable Bernoulli responses of mean $p_j$ and pairwise correlation $\rho$,
$$
\mathbb E\widehat p_j=p_j,\qquad
\operatorname{Var}(\widehat p_j)
=\frac{p_j(1-p_j)}{m_j}\{1+(m_j-1)\rho\}.
$$
A standard quasi-binomial model uses a common dispersion multiplier $\phi$. It cannot represent this variance simultaneously when the offer counts $m_j$ vary, because the multiplier $1+(m_j-1)\rho$ then varies by user.

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