Bored beyond tears by the kind of pieces that begin “we asked a hundred people what they thought about…,” I’ve asked myself and the two people who sit nearest me what the best surveys of the last ten years have been. It’s a bold, crowded field, but on the basis on exhausting and massively inconclusive analysis conducted sporadically when I have nothing better to do, I’m now in a position to reveal our very own top five:
5. God tops list of most-desired phone-calls.
4. Japanese women’s hair predicts economic downturns.
3. Ugly people flock to Philadelphia.
2. Americans suspect Scotland may not have microwaves or the internet.
1. 27% of people think that it’s stupid that it’s illegal to die in the houses of Parliament.
And 100% of journalists are grateful that there’s a foolproof method for turning opinions into facts simply by counting them. Vote now to let Prospect know your own favourite…
Asked the two people either side of you? Doesn’t that make it a survey or surveys? Or is that a snap poll?
very entertaining, none the less. Anyway, I must dash, I have some statistically significant hair measuring to do!