Thanks for doing this survey and sharing the results, super interesting!
Regarding
maybe partly because people who have inside views were incentivised to respond, because it’s cool to say you have inside views or something
Yes, I definitely think that there’s a lot of potential for social desirability bias here! And I think this can happen even if the responses are anonymous, as people might avoid the cognitive dissonance that comes with admitting to “not having an inside view.” One might even go as far as framing the results as “Who do people claim to defer to?”
Thanks for doing this survey and sharing the results, super interesting!
Regarding
Yes, I definitely think that there’s a lot of potential for social desirability bias here! And I think this can happen even if the responses are anonymous, as people might avoid the cognitive dissonance that comes with admitting to “not having an inside view.” One might even go as far as framing the results as “Who do people claim to defer to?”