something skalding perhaps?
I was surprised by the Einstein/Darwin poll. I would have expected a few more votes for Darwin.
Would someone be a dear and list all the polls that have been “held here?”
'K-Thanks.
I was amazed at the proportion of people (over a third) that had been handcuffed.
I was amazed at that 80% of people would save a human baby over a healthy baby panda.
You might not think this is strange but it was a followup to a thread where a significant proportion of people would save a pet dog over a human stranger.
66%have seriously considered suicide. Self selected, blah blah blah but still interesting.
Again, thanks. Looks like this might take me a while. I’ll probably be zombie-fying this thread sometime in the future.
i’m not. i agree that Darwin’s ideas are intuitive, while Einstein’s are more wtf?!
a good example of a vocal minority vested in a cause vs the silent majority?
doesn’t work for me. i think it has expired? i tried google but i’m not sure how you would go about sorting it. would be a tad more useful if you could sort by number of voters.
IIRC, a “How do you feel about the prospect of eating synthetic meat?” poll was about 10% grossed out vs. 90% enthusiastic.
Shouldn’t this be a poll?
PSXer’s poll about movie theater popcorn
I was pretty surprised when my own poll found that two thirds of Dopers have or had a piece of pencil lead embedded in their skin (like I do).
Use the search function and search for threads with ‘poll:’ in the thread title, and only search in the IMHO forum.
I looked in it after you posted it with no problem. Doesn’t work now. Why would a search time out? Oh, was it an SD search engine search? No matter. Now that you’ve posted some pointers, I’ll use Google.
The most surprising one for me was this poll I made on how much you liked to be tickled. I expected a typical bell curve, perhaps at worst a “dromedary” curve with two humps in the middle of the “like” and “dislike” regions perhaps (since tickling is something that you either like or dislike, presumed that there would be no middle ground-that much I figured at least).
I never expected in my wildest dreams to see 54% of the votes for the “hated it the most option”, nor to find out that only ~10% liked it at all (I myself voted +3, and actually miss having my deceased father of 14 years this month not being around to tickle me anymore, something he did with relish). Some people got on my case and said I should have added a “This is the most vile activity in the universe and if ever am subjected to it again it will be too soon” category. Same planet different worlds I guess.
it’s not intuitive, i guess it’s a thin line between forced laughter and a welcome romp.
thanks. following which i found that only about half of those polled did not masturbate in the office.
Poll: Have you ever masturbated at work? - http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=564152&highlight=poll%3A
There was a poll that asked people about their wiping habits. I was shocked to find out so many women wipe back to front, I wouldn’t have guessed anyone actually did that.
this one? How do you wipe? [poll] - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board
incidentally, i recall a thread about bidet sprays and how it’s something that is just not done in the States. to the point where some were even adamant that it’s not any cleaner than using toilet paper.