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May 11, 2005

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Some jobs don't pay enough

You work at an opinion polling firm. The boss strolls in with the week's assignments. You can imagine how many people jumped at this one:

From the SCMP:

Potty training in Hong Kong leaves a lot to be desired as a survey has found that one in five people do not wash their hands after using public toilets. Of the 371 public toilet users polled, 71 - or about 20 per cent - said they did not wash their hands. And here is the gender difference: 65 of them were men, according to People's Health Actions, an advocacy group, and the Hong Kong Toilet Association, which conducted the survey last month.

For the survey, volunteers...were sent to interview toilet users for eight to 10 hours at 20 public toilets on Hong Kong Island.

I'm sure no-one lied, either. I was wondering what those people with clipboards were doing hanging outside those toilets. I hope to God they were given gas masks to put up with the fumes.

 posted by Simon on 05.11.05 at 10:54 AM in the




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are you skimping on the full survey results?
there were interesting statistics on average (and maximum) time spent on the number 1 and number 2 activities.

 posted by: eswn on 05.11.05 at 11:25 AM [permalink]

"volunteers...were sent to interview toilet users"

Hopefully, this was AFTER the job was done. I, for one, can't have conversations while on the toilet. There must be boundaries, people. Boundaries.

 posted by: Helen on 05.12.05 at 07:18 PM [permalink]




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