More like a polling one. I routinely astroturf all surveys because I hate surveys. I am both a PhD holder, I am under 21 and I am LGBTQ, A veteran, and everything else at once

good. I only do it for required surveys. I dont do other surveys

Being a PhD and researcerh, dont you see surveys as a vital way of collecting data? So why would you intentionally throw off the data many researchers use to reach conclusions?

People wonder why statistics can be so messed up. Some of it is lying with math. But statisticians can't also help when people are being malicious.

A vital way to collect bad data, as evidenced here. Why would you trust what people say anyway?

I'd love to hear the alternative then? How would you gather data on how people feel about policy without a survey (aka just asking them), as an example?

You may be right, however one would think researchers at Carnegie Mello would know how to ensure statistically valid results.