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Is it the participants' responses or the participants responses?

The participants' responses, with the apostrophe after the s, because the responses belong to the participants and participants is plural. Without the apostrophe it is not possessive at all and the sentence usually does not parse.

This comes up on Apostrophe Rules Explained, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.

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