Norman Bradburn is a Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. He also serves as the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.

Michael J. Stern is a Methodology Fellow for NORC at the University of Chicago's Center for Excellence in Survey Research.

Brian Wansink is the John Dyson Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.

Timothy P. Johnson is professor of public administration and director of the Survey Research Laboratory at University of Illinois, Chicago.