Wednesday, September 17, 2008

GALLUP POLL: Nation Poll on Jay's Jokes

"I hate Ike.
Still no power... and my car got scratched to hell by a limb that fell on it."
Now you know how Tina Turner feels.
BADUM-TISH
In response to Jay's repeated telling of this joke, Gallup was commissioned by fellow Everyone is a Sith editor Mike Lewis to determine whether everyone else through this joke was not funny.

Gallup asked 300 people nation wide likely to hear Jay tell jokes. Here is what the poll found*.

Do you find this joke funny? yes/no
YES: 30% (90)
NO: 70% (210)

As one can see there is the overwhelming number of people feel that this joke is not funny. Now, lets go dig deeper into these numbers to find out if there is anything else they can tell us. The following questions were asked to people who DID find the joke funny.

Did you Get the joke?
Yes: 10%
No: 90%

Occupation of those who found the joke funny
Nascar Driver: 5%
TV and VCR repair man: 15%
Death Row inmate 80%**

Demographic breakdown

Gender:
M: 75%
F: 25%

Age:
0-18: 45%
19-35:45%
35+: 5%

Political Affiliation
Republican: 15%
Democrat 20%
Spendocract: 10%
Asshole: 65%


*There is a 6.3% Margin of error.
** All Death Row inmates also got the joke

5 comments:

Mike Lewis said...

i find it strange that people would self identify as a 'spendocrat'

Caleb said...

MRPP made that joke on Monday.

_J_ said...

"Death Row Inmate" is an "Occupation"?

I have been lied to my entire life.

AND now I know what i'm doing once i get my post-graduate degree!

Unknown said...

The numbers confuse me. 10% of all who found the joke funny understood it. 80% of those who found the joke funny were Death row inmates, of which all understood the joke. So a minimum of 80% should have understood the joke. ZOMG!! These numbers have been skewed!!

_J_ said...

Did they all understand it? Or did they just think it funny?