Pathetic surveys

Arnold · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:33 am

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Great Scott! 16% believe Back to the Future's Dr Emmet Brown discovered radiation as science survey shows British ignorance... but can you do any better?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z1jQYmiUbo

shyamz · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:24 pm

Or it proves that people have a sence of humour and like voiding the results of stupid surveys?

Arnold · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:54 pm

If you are guessing and have never seen Back to the Future, Dr Emmet Brown isn't an unreasonable guess. (The only one I didn't know, was who did the first lung transplant.)

TonyHoyle · **Joined:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:48 pm **Posts:** 212

Just in case anyone might get it wrong they prefilled the answer in question 6..

I'd probably have got 2/3 off the bat.. eg. I thought it was Marie Curie that discovered radioactivity, and she's not on the list.

They once tried one of these surveys when I was at school - we had to sit for an hour answering questions on our attitude to women. I just invented something like a cross between alf garnett and harold shipman in my head and answered in that way. The results would probably have made a great mail headline '30% of teenagers think women should be killed on sight if they move more than 6 feet from the sink..'

ponce on the heath · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:35 pm

I think it's been mentioned elsewhere, but people (especially schoolchildren) see it as their duty to take the piss out of those things. After all, if the survey showed most people got upwards of 75% right there would be no reason for the findings to be published, and the whole exercise would have been a waste of everyone's time. We had a quiz at school which featured the question

"If a coin is flipped 250 times what is the probability of landing on heads?" or something similar. Someone answered
"Nobody ever wins these kinds of contests"

Fingal · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:09 pm

TonyHoyle wrote:

Just in case anyone might get it wrong they prefilled the answer in question 6..

Yes, but with the wrong answer. The correct answer is nitrogen.

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:44 pm

More of a pathetic study than a survey, but never mind. It's getting a bit of a kicking.

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Problems in the bedroom? It could be because your partner gets on too well with your friends

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1jj7yCKT8

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

ponce on the heath wrote:

I think it's been mentioned elsewhere, but people (especially schoolchildren) see it as their duty to take the piss out of those things. After all, if the survey showed most people got upwards of 75% right there would be no reason for the findings to be published, and the whole exercise would have been a waste of everyone's time. We had a quiz at school which featured the question

"If a coin is flipped 250 times what is the probability of landing on heads?" or something similar. Someone answered
"Nobody ever wins these kinds of contests"

Yes Schoolkids see it as a chance for a laugh.
Note also the agenda of these surveys - to vilify young people and education.

It's funny (No it isn't - it's pathetic) that they never do anything designed to highlight respectable adults like us and their spectacular failure to convert currency, calculate repayments,
work out probabilities, or understand fairly simple sentences.

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:32 pm

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Unpacking, recuperating and settling in: Why it takes 21 hours and 31 minutes to start enjoying a holiday

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1jk3F7RUP

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:43 am

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Falling asleep after sex is a good thing because it shows you are in love, says study

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1kGyVqrmX
Predictable comments too.

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My wife falls asleep during sex.

- Workerant, Stockport, UK, 23/1/2012 8:54
Click to rate Rating 18

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I don't agree. I always spend time talking to my wife after sex. If there's a 'phone handy.

- Alistair Hillier Manser, Sandbanks UK, 23/1/2012 8:33
Click to rate Rating 22

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:48 am

Arnold wrote:

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Falling asleep after sex is a good thing because it shows you are in love, says study

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1kGyVqrmX

But wait! That was yesterday's survey. Science doesn't stand still.

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Stay awake chaps! Pillow talk really does matter to the ladies

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1kMqmjkoe

ezinra · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:48 pm

Car parking? Best leave it to the missus! Study finds women are better than men...

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On average, it took women 21 seconds to park, compared with 16 seconds for men.

Over a lifetime, says the report, this translates into men spending nine days parking while woman take 12.

Unless they don't have a car.

Those figures mean people park their cars in a bay 50,000 times in a lifetime. Seems an awful lot to me.

Survey commissioned by a car park company, of course.

Compare and contrast with last September's:

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At last, statistics that prove a sexist stereotype... Women are worse at parking

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:41 pm

I'm sure we saw this photo earlier this month.

ezinra · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:39 am

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Married Geordies in their thirties are the nation's biggest flirts, a survey has found.

More than half (52 per cent) are over-friendly in the workplace, throwing colleagues suggestive glances or smiles.

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However a quarter of the 1,000 adults surveyed (25 per cent) claimed never to flirt.

If this pathetic survey (for 'National Flirt Day') only interviewed 1000 adults, how many of them were "married Geordies in their thirties"? Just these two?

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Glad I'm not a Geordie as they have a shocking reputation, plus all they go on about is drink and football.

- Not often wrong, Middlesbrough, 01/2/2012 22:59 Rating 2

An opinion supported by as much evidence as the article itself.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:21 am

ezinra wrote:

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Glad I'm not a Geordie as they have a shocking reputation, plus all they go on about is drink and football.

- Not often wrong, Middlesbrough, 01/2/2012 22:59 Rating 2

An opinion supported by as much evidence as the article itself.

Having taught in FE&HE in Middlesbrough for the last ten years, I can assure you that the Smoggies are all teetotal and never ever mention football.

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