Remove Advanced Pulldown and Duplicate Frames

I've been researching this but still have not figured it out:
When I import Canon XF100 footage shot in 24fps from my CF card into FCP 7, in the "Log and Transfer" window under "Preferences", should I check or uncheck "Remove Advanced Pulldown and Duplicate Frames"?  My thought was to uncheck the box since it is a function specific to P2 cards and that it wouldn't make a difference either way for my footage.  Also (and I could be wrong), I didn't think any pulldown was necessary since I was shooting in 24fps.  However, when I examined 2 test clips taken through both paths, there was one noticeable difference: the unchecked clip is larger (644.8MB) than the checked (582.8MB).   Hmmmm....
Does this mean the footage changes based on if that box is checked or not? 
And in my shooting/import scenario, should I check or uncheck that box?
Thank you.

23.98 and 23.98
> I have a few different cameras and some need pulldown and some don't but I've always left it checked under the > assumption that if there's nothing to pulldown it can't/won't and everything has been fine.
good to know.  i agree.  based on my conversations with the canon xf software folks, they were not entirely sure whether or not to check the box, so it doesn't seem to be a significant impact on the work flow.
thanks all for your input.

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