Survey taken. Very interesting questioning. The dangers of bitcoin are still denied by many enthusiasts, but it may become a really serious issue as the userbase expands.

Cheers Tommy.  There are a number of hypothesis at test in the survey (hence the length and sometime obscurity of some questions).  All responses are greatly appreciated and should go some way to several new insights into Bitcoin users.

Thanks for that.  I must admit (despite a few naysayers but you expect that) an enormous amount of effort has gone into crafting a bunch of stuff into this survey along with a fair amount of coding to get Qualtrics to do.. tricks.

I can't disclose the underlying thinking until the survey closes (that would be silly given what the survey is trying to ascertain) but wrt the credibility of stories part... simply credibility is up to you.  Technically credibility is a facet of trust but in practise it means different things to different people BUT seems to end up in the same place.  Meaning the more credible (for whatever reason) you deem something to be the more likely you are to trust it.

I'm really hoping to get over 100 full study participants by the end of the month as that will enable some (ironically) credibility with the results in the fields of psychology and sociology as well as my core discipline - cyber-security.  Hopefully this study will provide one of the first formal looks into usage along with how and why news might be a price determinant of Bitcoin.  Normally this determinant status is merely asserted by statistical correlation between a news story being published and a price movement, here I hope to be able to explain why people respond to those news stories.

Please please do encourage others especially from the Bitcoin community who have remained somewhat bashful in helping out.

Again thanks