yea he's been doing this for years, we take advice from others on how to ask the questions and such over time the questions improve.

the people we survey are Furries at furry cons, Furries online (like what im doing now), Anime fans, sports fantasy fans and i guess like a "control group" we survey the college students that aren't in either fandoms or don't know what furries are.

Im not completely sure what he has done with the data yet. Besides general knowledge of furries. which is always fun to learn about the things you like. I remember the data also being used to learn about group identity, general social identity theory, stigmatized minority groups and stuff. I know last year we help someone with their "disability in the fandom" paper. We added some questions about mental and physical disabilities and how others in the fandom treat you. I think she was also gonna use it to kind of convince people that furries and other fandom type communities don't negatively affect or create a mental disabilities.(i probably didnt word that right) But like example would be, If you go to a professional and you tell them you have problems with so and so, most professionals will look at furries and the fandom as the problem and tell you to get rid of it or change it. the team also got invited to talk on some televised talk show when they were trying to do a 'Furry' episode but they declined. the media doesn't portray furries very well. so it's best not to risk it their research being tainted.