Given two approaches to the survey of therapists, which will produce the most reliable results: one that openly identifies the participants on both ends and asks neutral questions, or one that deceptively pretends to be a pedo seeking treatment, and therefore can't ask neutral questions? I think you've made the assumption that the therapists you're surveying will lie in the first case and not lie in the second, or that a disproportionate number would simply ignore the survey in the first rather than the second.

What do you mean by neutral questions? The point of the survey was to try and find out how a therapist would react to an MAP seeking mental health services and the types of questions they might ask.

It's not that I think any therapists will lie or even ignore the survey in the first case, its that they'd learn new information from an org like B4U-ACT if they knew it was openly us asking the questions, and it would affect their answers, either negatively or positively for various reasons.

The purpose of the project was to find out what MHPs perceptions of us already were.

The only deception in this is that I wasn't actually suffering from depression or currently seeking services, bu I was sincerely seeking the answers to the actual questions I was proposing.

I don't see what difference getting a group like gallup to do it would be. Aside from the fact there's probably no group like that willing to do such a project for us, when it comes down to it, they'd be asking the same questions, and again, a therapist will definitely react differently if they think they are communicating with an actual MAP seeking services.