Comments on: The Great Male Survey of 2008

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:53:32 +0000

The graphs are a joke. No secondary analysis of information is done, leading to misleading results.

Example:
Q5: What type of shampoo
Winner (at 37%): It's a specialty shampoo.

Misleading.
63% selected either: it's the one I've always used, or no specific type, or it's cheap

The true message is most guys don't care.

Example 2:
Q:What perception about your car?
Winner (at 41%): I don't give a damn

But 59% either want to impress, or not be embarassed.

The true message is most guys care about their image when it comes to their car.

By: AmyG

AmyG — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:26:28 +0000

Since when is "dandy" a word that is still in use to describe "the modern man?" That's hilarious!

By: Haldor

Haldor — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:28:15 +0000

That sure was an interesting survey. some things I'd have to agree with whole heartedly, but others seemed the results were skewed by participants. overall very interesting though.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:39:04 +0000

The thing about the graph is, it's a female graph for a male subject. The gender is all wrong. Men like hard facts, solid graphs, concrete ideas. Women prefer the soft, fading gradients.

That's why it doesn't work.

By: vero4902

vero4902 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:56:36 +0000

Great graph... well thought-out.

By: Rocky Rook

Rocky Rook — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:51:41 +0000

Wow ... that is quite a survey.

By: Mr. Binky

Mr. Binky — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:28:06 +0000

haha, yeah I thought the fade graph was idiotic as well...

By: DOJ

DOJ — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:16:32 +0000

looks like someone needs a class in information visualization.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:18:58 +0000

@ HaricotVert

Good point.

By: Moon

Moon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:43:23 +0000

6% Are guided by trends in buying clothes 94% are liars or clueless. HaricotVert, that's the first thing I said, too: "What a useless graph"

By: HaricotVert

HaricotVert — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:01:08 +0000

That has to be one of the most poorly constructed graphical depictions of data ever.

If they're going to show percentages of responses, why on earth would they choose a bar chart with fading top ends, none of them appropriately scaled with each other?

They may as well just list out the numbers as they do in the 2nd part, the top "graph" does nothing.