How will you deal with irresponsible survey responses of a roleplaying or fictitious nature?
Needless to say, there are always such respondents in any public vampire, energy worker, otherkin, or therian forum, and we expect this survey to be no different. We have structured the questions so as to be essentially meaningless to those who want to answer the survey as “Lestat.” Some respondents have noticed questions which have multiple-choice possibilities which appear to allow for roleplaying-style answers. This is indeed true. In order to refute claims made by previous researchers, we have to allow these answers as possibilities. Otherwise, we can’t say that vampires DON’T make these claims, if they weren’t given the chance to make them. If we get a majority of people who really believe the horror fiction novels as fact, well, we want to know that, too, don’t we? Isn’t that something that real vampires would find useful to know about their own Community? And finally, we asked some flat-out roleplayer culture questions. Keep in mind that although we don’t know which individuals
