Reader Survey Final Check-In

A short logistics check-in eighteen days after the call for submissions, prompted by Scott having accidentally missed some Book Review Contest entries and wanting to avoid repeating that here. It is essentially one artefact: the roster of the nineteen surveys he currently plans to include, each listed by the researcher's initial and topic — biostasis/cryonics, male homosexuality, health-related quality of life, uniformity illusion, digital literacy, depression (targeted at depressives), weight loss, political compressability, bullshit jobs, moral curiosity, autogynephilia (targeting trans women), sexual fantasies, psychedelics (targeting people who have tried them), business (targeting people in tech), incest, personality, meditation, gender identity, and rhymes (targeting non-native English speakers). Submitters are asked to confirm their entry appears and to comment rather than email if it does not, since 'we've already established that I don't get your emails for some reason'. Three surveys are flagged as not asking for User ID, with a nudge to add it for better demographics; he links his preliminary draft of the generic demographics form and asks people to check it covers what they need before he launches that Friday.

Quality 42 · Solid. 42 — low-mid Solid. Pure coordination with no authored argument, which puts it below the survey-results announcements ACX-404 and ACX-577 (both 44) — those at least deliver data — and well below its own parent call (53). It clears the announcement floor (ACX-791, 38) on one real merit: the roster is the only public record of what the 2021 reader-research program actually studied, and that list is a genuinely interesting document in its own right.

Claude’s paradigm shift 15 · None. 15 — Negligible-to-Slight. A confirmation list. Nothing here was new in its moment and nothing was meant to be.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. 1 — Negligible. Operational housekeeping for a program founded elsewhere; its effect is that a handful of researchers checked a list. Consistent with the pure survey-admin precedent ACX-404/ACX-577 (both RWI 1).