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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Don't forget that surveys generally only reveal what the commissioner wants them to! After all, it's the same with scientific research. How do you (everyone) think that the cigarette companies find research to say that smoking it healthy? Who do you think commissioned the scientific research that backs up the posters in my local solarium (SUNBEDS ARE HEALTHY*)?
jno your question surprises me! Not much gets past you - I can't believe you've fallen for a slanted survey. I
I'd also like to know what the options were? If those were the only women to chose between, I'd have a tough time. Also, Anita Roddick isn't in the news so much these days. Perhaps a lot of girls hadn't heard of her. I wonder if Cherie Blair had been an option if the votes would have changed? And the desire to be a glamour model probably just reflects the fact that at 15-19, a lot of smaller girls are still praying they'll have a boob-growth spurt. (Hell I'm 22 and I'm not giving up hope yet!!!)
* - Apparently they even cure obesity!
My article in todays Metro says two-thirds for Jordan.
I think it is the rich celeb lifestyle that young people crave. If JK Rowling or Anita Roddick were on the front of Heat magazine every week driving in a flash car or dating a "hunk" celeb and hob-nobbing with the rich and famous, then I imagine they would become role models.
I'm sure it's not the attraction of Peter Andre that makes all those teenage girls want to be Jordan, but when we see tv programmes where she is shopping and spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on clothes and jewellery, or going on a luxury holiday and cruise, being photographed every nano-second, you can see the attraction for young impressionable girls - and it's not Jordan.
Also, 1000 is a small sample size for this type of survey, it's completely unreliable and is aimed solely at generating a headline rather than surveying opinions of note and import among today's yoof.
Imagine a world where 63% of women were glamour models and 25% lapdancers?? And you guys are complaining about this?
I despair.
1000 may be a small number of yoofs voting for Jordan or Abi Titmus, but votes are casted on lesser numbers for global issues and one persons future life can be decided by 12 people in a jury.
It's a slice of life.
If I was a young(er) lad I would find the attraction of having loads of cash, a model on each arm, a flash car, a nice pad in several places, a yacht .....hang on, at 33.3 I would still like all that!! Sod it, I want to be David Beckham please.
Ok, perhaps I've missed the point. I thought "going down the pan" meant "going down the toilet", as in JNO's question. Therefore if wine is going down the pan, it must be bad. jno - as questionmaster, perhaps you could clarify so I can better understand your question and the subsequent answers. Thank you.
Thank you. And at risk of sounding chatty- teehee!
Does anyone have any information yet on the full options available to the girls answering the survey? If the options were "glamour model, lap dancer, teacher, sewage engineer, or funeral director" I would understand the answes better. Admittedly from that list I'd still expect more than 3% to go for teaching. Hmmm.