Philosophy Bear begs for a little help with a project
Hello my dearly loved readers.
I’m in the midst of a project that I at least think might be very important. I am trying to get people to fill out a survey to test a practically important and understudied social science question. This will eventually be turned into a blog post. Unfortunately, I can’t just ask you all to fill it out, because I have recently made two posts on a similar topic, and I don’t want to bias the results. I can, however, ask you to share the survey for me.
If I had a steady source of income at the moment, I’d just buy some survey takers. Unfortunately, I’m too poor to do that. I’ve already put up to 150 dollars US on the line by attaching a prize to the survey. I’d appreciate your help sharing the survey as widely as possible, it would give me not just additional survey takers, but a warm fuzzy glow.
Here’s how you can help:
If you haven’t read anything of mine since April 20th you’re eligible to fill out my survey yourself: https://forms.gle/cgkKofv5NHqsVjQe8
Please share the survey on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Substack, Substack notes, by email, and anywhere else etc. etc. You can tell people that the survey is about how personality affects the distribution of money, which is the truth. You can also tell them that they can win up to $50 dollars. The survey takes approximately 8-9 minutes to complete.
Ask your favorite creators, on Substack and elsewhere, to share it.
Thanks, from a philosophical bear.
Shared on Twitter/Facebook/Substack.
Some feedback/thoughts:
* It's probably not great practice to title the survey with what you're trying to investigate, as that could bias the results.
* Some of the questions are required, and others are optional. It seems arbitrary which is which, and the instructions say that they're all required in order to earn a prize.
* The "do you understand X" questions at the beginning are excessive; I expect many people will quit out of boredom before finishing the first page.
* Ok this is pedantic, but "two" is a number. If you want people to write it out in *digits*, I would just say that. :)
* The current prize system has no incentive for people to share the poll, and for those who are eligible to fill it out there's an incentive not to, since it makes them less likely to win if more people answer. To fix that you could do something like "please put the name of the person who referred you", and award a random prize to a randomly selected referrer.
* I expect you'd get more new readers if you include a direct link to your Substack in the last question rather than making people find it themselves.
I restacked it. Hope that's helpful.