Boring talkers

By ( January 16, 2012 at 01:45) · Filed under Polls, Rankings

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goo Ranking took a look recently at the features of boring talkers.

Demographics

Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Number 5 is the reason I usually dislike work events, as they either talk shop (hmm, why wasn’t that in this list?) or talk about ex-colleagues or contacts in obscure departments that I have never heard of, let alone the person themselves!
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Buddies’ boring boasts

By ( December 6, 2009 at 03:50) · Filed under Polls, Rankings

The first of today’s goo Rankings is on what prideful talk from your friends turns you off completely, for both men getting bored and women getting bored.

Demographics

Between the 23rd and 26th of October 2009 1,162 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 62.9% of the sample were female, 10.5% in their teens, 20.7% in their twenties, 30.8% in their thirties, 21.9% in their forties, 9.0% in their fifties, and 7.0% aged sixty or older.

Looking at the lists below, one must suspect that there more than a hint of a tinge of jealousy in the things people are saying they are bored by!
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