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Home | Friday 3rd July 2009 | Issue 682

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AND FINALLY

Surprising a survey from the Daily Mail recently had 96% of participants voting that gypsies should jump to the front of the queue in the NHS. This wasn’t quite the opinion that the Mail had expected, or even sought, however, when they posed the ever so slightly biased question in the MailOnline “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue?”

It’s just possible however, that the result might have gone a different way had it not been for a virtual revolt amongst the UK’s army of psychologists. After the dodgy survey came to the attention of the shrinks they launched a full-on twitter/email offensive to get as many votes for ‘Yes’ as possible to sabotage such a blatantly biased, consensus-manufacturing poll.

Said one Brighton-based senior lecturer in experimental psychology Dr Sam Hutton, “One reason I think there were so many yes votes was because a psychologist got hold of it, and sent an email which quickly got copied to virtually every psychologist in the country, suggesting that we all vote yes as a way of protesting against such a ludicrously loaded question (psychologists care about questionnaire design)”.

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