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You'd be surprised about how accurate scientific surveys are. The worst surveys are only 10% points off from real world data lol.
Unless you're gaming the survey like magazines do, real world studies aren't off by much.
https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2016/05/02/assessing-the-accuracy-of-online-nonprobability-surveys/