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Holy See (1),  Ghana (1).    The geographic distribution of the participants indicates that our methods of distributing the survey were obviously insufficient at reaching researches in Asia, Africa and eastern Europe. Compared to the \href{http://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/distribution/}{IAU membership}, the USA is over-represented by a factor of 2.1, Germany by a factor of 2.7, and China is under-represented by a factor of 60. Major contributors to this imbalance are the language of the survey (English) and the method of distribution (social media and friends-of-friends networks).  Hence, any conclusions we make will be only applicable to the researchers working in the Western/developped countries which are predominantly represented.