Less than 50% of the Adult Population of the UK have any debt whatsoever!

Loughton_Monkey

PollySouthend wrote: »

i've got exactly 50k - i dont know what box to tick

In the interests of accuracy, you should be barred from voting. But if we were interested in accuracy, the poll would have been designed (a) without ambiguity, and (b) with clear definitions.

It wasn't so it isn't.

So just tick any box at random, like the rest of us did.

The voting so far is nonsense. But because you haven't voted, it is incomplete. It needs your help and active involvement by voting. Then it will be complete nonsense.

MrRee_2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

20 of the votes are probably you!

Don't you get sick of always being so utterly wrong on almost everything?

Graham_Devon

MrRee wrote: »

Don't you get sick of always being so utterly wrong on almost everything?

So am I always wrong?

Or wrong on almost everything?

MrRee_2

There must be a medical condition with a name to describe it ....

cepheus

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Well blimey. This one consists of 114 votes. And you are quite happy to make a conclusion from that!

Not to mention the amount of double, triple, quadruple voting under different accounts. 20 of the votes are probably you!

Not to mention the fact that it's on a subset of the forum inhabited mostly by those owning multiple assets. Apparently.

Not to mention that some people will define savings as

1. deposits,
2. others as deposits plus bonds
3. others as deposits plus bonds and equities

This is probably the reason the chart appears to show most of us have a little or a lot which doesn't make sense! Few people will keep a lot of money as cash.


MSE DT polls even if asked correctly can only show how different we are from the average.

Loughton_Monkey

Graham_Devon wrote: »

So am I always wrong?

Or wrong on almost everything?

Yes, it was rather badly worded in my view.

"Don't you get sick of always being so utterly wrong on almost everything?"

It would be better had the "always" been deleted, or maybe the "almost". To have both makes it a bit ambiguous, and it's not very good English.

As a great supporter of your posts, I am pleased to confirm that I give you the benefit of the doubt, and suspect you are utterly wrong on 'almost everything'. If we went back far enough, we might be able to find something upon which you were 'right'. Hence to say you are utterly wrong on everything is a bit of an exaggeration.

In any lively debate, it stalls if everyone has the same view. Therefore it is helpful to have someone who puts forward a contrary view, even if it is wrong. So please keep posting.

Loughton_Monkey

MrRee wrote: »

There must be a medical condition with a name to describe it ....

I looked for one and the nearest I can find would be cacodoxian, a development of the noun cacodoxy:

Cac´o`dox`y
n.1.Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy. Heterodoxy, or what Luther calls cacodoxy. - R. Turnbull.



By absolute coincidence, the word heterdoxy popped up on another thread the other day.

Probably best, though, to use the word I have always used. Someone who is always wrong uses "sophistry", defined thus:

soph·ist·ry [sof-uh-stree]
noun, plural soph·ist·ries.
1. a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
2. a false argument; sophism.

So my formal diagnosis would be that the medical condition would be called "sophistisis".

If symptoms persist, you should see a doctor.

mayonnaise

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Not to mention the amount of double, triple, quadruple voting under different accounts. 20 of the votes are probably you!.

Oh the irony.

Anyway, what we can conclude from this poll is that there is quite some liquidity hanging around in the pockets of the average Briton, and the doom-and-gloom picture painted by the usual suspects on here is far removed from reality. :beer:

cepheus

Sorry mayonnaise you made a few typos, but I have fixed it for you

Anyway, what we can conclude from this poll is that there is quite some liquidity hanging around in the pockets of the [STRIKE]average[/STRIKE] richest Britons, and the doom-and-gloom picture painted by the [STRIKE]usual suspects on here[/STRIKE] average Briton is far removed from reality for typical MSE posters