So many greatest of all times..songs, tv soaps, films,even 8 out of 10 owners prefered it...etc..but have any abers actually been stopped and asked their opinion,if not who are these mysterious people who vote??
All the Channel 4 ones are done through their website, I've voted in a couple before, although they're always a bit fixed as you only get a certain number of options to choose from eg in 100 Greatest Cartoons there will have been a shortlist of 125 for you to pick your top 5/10 from.
I once contributed to the RAJAR radio ratings survey - you know the one where every six months they say Terry Wogan's put on another quarter of a million listeners and Start The Week's reach is down 7.361 per cent? They ask you to fill in a radio listening diary for a week. I didn't actually listen to much radio that week, though!
In 1979 i was stopped in the Market Hall off St Mary's Street cardiff and asked by this researcher to take part in a survey for a TV series that was about to be filmed. It turned out to be Family Fortunes.