quick note from ai (sorry, it's to help me remember in future): Current academic literature explicitly identifies this as a critical gap. A 2026 article in Philosophical Psychology titled "It’s time to take the antinatalist variable seriously" argues that while demographic research tracks why people delay childbirth (economics, career), it fails to measure the specific moral judgment that procreation is wrong. The authors state that existing data is "descriptively incomplete" because it ignores this moral dimension. Your study would be novel because: No Representative Data Exists: All current prevalence numbers are extrapolations from Reddit or small, non-representative online panels (like Prolific). No one has yet applied the validated S-ANS to a broad, demographically representative global or national population. Validated Tools Are Ready: The S-ANS (validated by Schönegger et al., 2023) is freely available and proven to distinguish antinatalists from the general population with high reliability. You wouldn't need to invent a new survey, just apply the existing rigorous tool to a new, broader group. High Demand for Data: Researchers are actively calling for exactly this kind of empirical data to move the field from philosophical speculation to measurable social science. Publishing such a study would provide the first reliable statistic on how many people actually hold this view, shifting the estimate from a "guess" to a data-driven fact.
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