I don't seek approbation for my behaviour - I wouldn't have adopted the van life if I needed it. I am interested in social attitudes and opinions though. Recently I've been completing a number of online research surveys, and I'm a bit shocked by the way they are worded to distort the responses, and how participants are deleted or dropped when they appear to be submitting unfavourable results.
If a company or organization of any kind is carrying out a study through the use of surveys to gather information and they decide their results are not of their liking and decide to purposely ignore information,.then the result they will get won't be a reflection of the social reality they are trying to understand in the first place, if so then the study and the data gathered is rendered useless for the purpose it originally served.
I would be interesting to me if you shared specifically what topics you got asked about on those surveys you mention.