Imo mildly misleading. I expect large parts of the 85% to just not have read their mails, or to have been too busy to answer what may look to them like a mildly useful survey.
Indeed, but my impression is that low response rates are the default outcome when you mail around a survey like this.
(It’s natural to wonder about bias. My feeling is that people who think COVID-19 was a lab leak are probably more, not less, likely to want to answer an anonymous survey that gives them a chance to say so.)
I think you have to distinguish between people who believe that it was a lab leak and people who believe that it’s good that the public believes that it’s a lab leak.
If I would be a virologist who told everyone in 2020 that all people who believe in the lab leak are conspiracy theorists, but updated towards the lab leak being the probable outcome, I would feel shame about that and minimize my exposure to the topic and not feel happy to fill out surveys about it.
Imo mildly misleading. I expect large parts of the 85% to just not have read their mails, or to have been too busy to answer what may look to them like a mildly useful survey.
I agree that it isn’t perfect, but it’s important information that should not be left out.
Indeed, but my impression is that low response rates are the default outcome when you mail around a survey like this.
(It’s natural to wonder about bias. My feeling is that people who think COVID-19 was a lab leak are probably more, not less, likely to want to answer an anonymous survey that gives them a chance to say so.)
I think you have to distinguish between people who believe that it was a lab leak and people who believe that it’s good that the public believes that it’s a lab leak.
If I would be a virologist who told everyone in 2020 that all people who believe in the lab leak are conspiracy theorists, but updated towards the lab leak being the probable outcome, I would feel shame about that and minimize my exposure to the topic and not feel happy to fill out surveys about it.