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That was quite interesting, though definitely US-focused. I look forward to seeing the results.

Will the raw results be made available?

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You bet! I will publish the results in a bunch of different ways to that everyone can see the (totally anonymous) data behind the charts that I'll be publishing. I am watching the early results roll in right now... absolutely fascinating!

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Those of us in the US that aren't on a well defined position in the left-right scale aren't quite represented either, but that's fine.

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Just next time maybe ask which part of the world I'm from. Note that in Eastern Europe we don't identify as "white" because only ethnicity can signify belonging and cultural background, whatever the shade of one's skin may be.

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Boo for using Google forms. The data might be anonymous to you, but they certainly have stored all the responses, linked them up to individuals, and will sell the data to anyone willing to pay for it.

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Honestly, it was the best tool for the job. Luckily it can be done completely anonymously (even to Google). You can even go so far as to VPN->Tor->Incognito and do it without being logged into anything on a clean browser. ;) No name, no email, etc.

That said... if there were a better way to do it than Google Forms, I would have. Looked into it for quite some time and it was the best way to go for this.

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Yeah, I get that. I've looked a little into alternatives in the past. https://www.typeform.com/ is what I came up with as a forms replacement outside of standing up my own lime survey instance or something. I don't know anything about the company and I'm sure they're selling data too... but at least it's not Google :P

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