MSE News: Dairy Milk is nation's favourite chocolate bar

Former_MSE_Guy

This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:

"Cadbury Dairy Milk is the UK's favourite chocolate bar, according to our poll of over 14,000 MoneySavingExpert.com users ..."

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Dairy Milk is nation's favourite chocolate bar

cactusdust

Kraft Foods. That is all.

Barneysmom

I would not like to live in a world without Cadbury chocolate, it would be very grey.

Kraft won't hurt Bournville, the Cadbury Magical Fairy will make sure nothing happens to it

geordie_joe

Another example of twisting things to say what you want.

Here are the ten most popular chocolates that got a mention by users.

1. Dairy Milk 2,168 votes (15.5% of users)
2. Galaxy 1,927 votes (13.5%)
3. Snickers 1,563 votes (11%)
4. Wispa 1,501 votes (10.65)
5. Double Decker 1,456 votes (10.3%)
6. Crunchie 1,443 votes (10.2%)
7. Fruit & Nut 1,331 votes (9.4%)
8. Twirl 1,184 votes (8.3%)
9. Bounty 1,164 votes (8.2%)
10. Flake 1,136 votes (8%)

How can you say it is the nations favourite when only 15.5% of people voted for it?

The way I see it is, 84.5% of voters didn't think it was their favourite.

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

geordie_joe wrote: »

Another example of twisting things to say what you want.

Here are the ten most popular chocolates that got a mention by users.

1. Dairy Milk 2,168 votes (15.5% of users)
2. Galaxy 1,927 votes (13.5%)
3. Snickers 1,563 votes (11%)
4. Wispa 1,501 votes (10.65)
5. Double Decker 1,456 votes (10.3%)
6. Crunchie 1,443 votes (10.2%)
7. Fruit & Nut 1,331 votes (9.4%)
8. Twirl 1,184 votes (8.3%)
9. Bounty 1,164 votes (8.2%)
10. Flake 1,136 votes (8%)

How can you say it is the nations favourite when only 15.5% of people voted for it?

The way I see it is, 84.5% of voters didn't think it was their favourite.

Unfortunately the AV Referendum didn't succeed.

poppy10_2

geordie_joe wrote: »

How can you say it is the nations favourite when only 15.5% of people voted for it?

So which one would you say was the nation's favourite?

geordie_joe

poppy10 wrote: »

So which one would you say was the nation's favourite?

Clearly there is no one winner.

For something to be the nations favourite more than half the people would have to think it was. As no one chocolate bar got more than half the votes, there is no clear winner.

What the vote shows is that more people voted for dairy milk than voted for any other bar, but 84.5% of people did not vote for dairy milk.

Or, to put it another way, when asked if dairy milk was their favourite chocolate, 84.5% of voters DID NOT SAY YES.

geordie_joe

Fruit_and_Nut_Case wrote: »

Unfortunately the AV Referendum didn't succeed.

I thought AV was using in this poll. Everybody got 3 votes, to vote for their top 3 bars.

Which actually makes things worse, because it means that when asked what their top 3 chocolate bars were 84.5% of people did not rank dairy milk in their top 3 bars. So how can anyone claim it is the nations favourite?

And those 15% who did vote for dairy milk, may have been voting for it because it is their second favourite, or even third favourite.

ariba10

Practically any continental chocolate is better than Cadbury.

There is not enough cocoa in it to warrant it to be called chocolate.

Mrs_Arcanum

Cocoa powder flavour eewwww!

7 of the 10 choices are made by Cadbury anyway. Why no Aero or Mars Bars as an option?

dtaylor84

Slow news day?