I agree, 100%, and it sucks to have to make decisions over such unreliable data. That’s exactly why I wrote about the number of people who took those surveys (when it’s easy to just gloss over them).
City Council also just talked about creating better structures to ask citizens these sorts of questions. It’ll be too late for this council formation question, but maybe we’ll be able to do better than holding these sorts of asinine surveys in the near future?