A relevant tweet from Nate Silver on the methodology used to conduct the survey:
This is not a scientific way to do a survey. The biggest issue is that it involved personalized outreach based on a totally arbitrary set of criteria. That’s a huge no-no. It also, by design, had very few biosafety or biosecurity experts.
This is a misunderstanding as I discuss I my comment below. The respondents were selected from a list according to the criteria set out. This doesn’t mean the authors emailed their friends
A relevant tweet from Nate Silver on the methodology used to conduct the survey:
The tweet has some screenshots of relevant parts of the paper
This is a misunderstanding as I discuss I my comment below. The respondents were selected from a list according to the criteria set out. This doesn’t mean the authors emailed their friends