[stevebmark]

I don’t know what your intentions or hypothesis are, but this is a dangerous place to be a novice in. Eye health is misunderstood and most people are ignorant of the basics. If you don’t know what emmetropization is, if you don’t know who Bates is, and if you don’t know why Bates is a quack, then I strongly discourage you from experimenting with user surveys.

[augusto-moura]

I mean, what are the risks of the surveys? I don't think it will be dangerous to survey people without the full knowledge. Better to be curious about it than do nothing. Discouraging low risk research just for being pendantic sounds a like toxic gatekeeping.

[serial_dev]

It really is just unnecessary and arrogant gate keeping.

OP for now just wants to talk to people, I assume to understand their issues, what they tried, what makes it better and what makes it worse for them. Talking to people volunteering for a call is not dangerous.

For all we know, OP will not see any pattern that fits their hypothesis and leaves it at that.