SWCHR invites you to take the 2017 Reptile and Amphibian Public Opinion Survey. This survey is for everyone—both enthusiasts and people who don’t like reptiles and amphibians, so please encourage your friends and family worldwide to participate as well! It is entirely online, takes about 30 minutes, and can be accessed via http://www.southwesternherp.com/survey.html from November 15th through February 15th, 2018. Upon successful completion of the survey, you will receive a code to enter a drawing for a free reptile/amphibian field guide. The results of our 2015 and 2013 surveys can be downloaded from the same page on our site.
Founded in 2007, SWCHR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the education of members and the general public on the natural history, biology, taxonomy, conservation and preservation needs, field studies, and captive propagation of the herpetofauna found in the American Southwest.
I apologize for not replying sooner. As you speculated, yes, I am pretty busy (but I'll also take your "smart" comment as well). I did solicit input on this year's iteration and received feedback in the testing phase, but there's always room for improvement.
This is definitely something we're considering for next time. It's tough to capture ALL the information desired and yet condense it into fewer questions. Since you took (or plan to take) this year's survey you should notice it's "quicker" than the last one, since there are much fewer write-in questions. One potential drawback in splitting the different subtopics of the survey into separate surveys is that we lose the ability to filter/classify responses based on answers to questions in other sections. Will have to figure out the best way to do that.
While not a 1 page survey, the questions presented to non-enthusiasts will be much fewer since question series presented are based on how other questions are answered. Obviously a person who says they don't keep reptiles or amphibians won't be shown most of the follow-on questions about keeping herps.
I may take you up on that offer...there are SO many ways the results can be sliced and diced, filtered, distilled, compiled, etc. that I can't think of them all (but usually do AFTER the report is finalized!). The data crunching will begin shortly after the survey closes in February.