Aug 27, 2026
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Take The 2026 ACX Survey

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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
Recurring tags: community engagement (29), psychology research (12), ACX survey (5), reader demographics (2)

Each year, I post a reader survey. This helps me learn who’s reading this blog. But it also helps me try to replicate psych findings and investigate interesting hypotheses. Some highlights from past years include birth order effects, mathematical interests vs. corn-eating style, sexual harassment victimization rates in different fields, whether all our kids are going to have autism, wisdom of inner crowds, failed replication of anti-vax polls, and Internet addiction.

This year’s survey will probably take 30 - 45 minutes. As an incentive to perform this public service, I’ll give a free one-year paid subscriptions to one randomly-selected survey respondent (subject to a challenge, which you can find at the bottom). The survey will be open until about September 10, so try to take it before then.

Click here to take the survey. If you notice any problems, please ask yourself “Is this a real objection rather than a nitpick? Will real people genuinely be confused/upset with this wording?” - and if the answer is yes, comment here so I can fix it.

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