Do They Really Want to Get Inside of Gun Shy's Head?

I received this in the last few days:

Gun Shy Tourist -
We are writing to ask for your help in a survey of bloggers being conducted by the University of Michigan. This study looks at how the blogging community thinks about and responds to important issues and current events. As the author of Around O-Town Orlando Area Crime Report and Firearm's Blog, you are invited to visit the link below and complete the survey. It will only take about 20 minutes.

We hope you will find the survey interesting and enjoyable. Simply click on the link below, or cut and paste the entire URL into your browser to access the survey:..

…We appreciate your participation -- it is only by hearing from nearly everybody in the sample that we can be sure the results are truly representative. Your responses will be kept strictly confidential, and we will be happy to share our results with you once the study is complete.

Thanks in advance for your willingness to share your ideas and experiences.

And:

Gun Shy Tourist -
A few days ago, we sent you a link to a survey seeking your opinions as a blogger about issues and events in society today. If you have already completed the survey, please accept our sincere thanks. If not, please do so today by following the link below.

If the people from UMich are reading my blog and are really interested in my opinions, let me personally extend an invitation for you to participate in my readers survey. This is how it works. You email me the questions, and then I will answer them on the blog for all of the readers to see and evaluate.

Thanks in advance for your willingness to play along.