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Blur the "modafinil" question to "modafinil, armodafinil, or adrafinil", since the modafinil question is theoretically incriminating, so people are more likely to lie (or use the survey results to say bad things about us), but the blurred one isn't because adrafinil is unscheduled.
Yes, that's not a bad idea. Would using the coinflipping technique be overkill?
Overkill for modafinil, maybe not overkill for the amphetamine family.
What's that?
Respondents are instructed to flip a coin; if heads answer yes, if tails answer truthfully. The overall difference from 50% is the real overall percentage while giving every yes answer deniability. I forget what this is called but it's common on touchy topics.
It's called randomized response. I remember hearing about it first a year or two ago on LW.