Scott announces the 2026 ACX annual reader survey, which takes 30-45 minutes and helps investigate psychological findings, with one respondent winning a free paid subscription. Longer summary

Scott announces the 2026 ACX annual reader survey, expected to take 30-45 minutes to complete. He explains that these yearly surveys help him understand his readership and replicate psychology findings, referencing past survey discoveries including birth order effects, mathematical interests correlating with corn-eating style, sexual harassment rates by field, autism and assortative mating, wisdom of crowds, vaccine hesitancy polling, and internet addiction. As an incentive, one randomly selected respondent will receive a free one-year paid subscription (subject to a challenge mentioned at the survey's end). The survey will remain open until approximately September 10. Shorter summary