Anxiety Culture can now bring
you the truth behind the survey questions which
lead to such parental-anxiety inducing survey
results as: “60% of 16 year-olds have used
illegal drugs”.
A source inside a major national opinion poll
company has leaked a set of survey questions
to us (see right). We were very concerned
to see the content of these questions, which
were aimed at an age group of 15 and 16 year-olds.
Some cynical people have said that teenagers
would hesitate to tick an answer which shows
them to be dull and boring.
Back in the adult world, a major sex survey
recently carried out in the US, by sociologist
E.Laumann, has come under criticism because
internal inconsistencies in the findings indicate
that a significant proportion of the respondents
were being untruthful. If adults tell
lies in a scientific study...
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Tick
yes to one of the following:
Do you stay
at home a lot, behave yourself, obey
your superiors and generally stay out
of trouble?
[yes___]
or:
Do you experiment
with drugs, get drunk, carry a knife,
go joyriding and generally have a good
time?
[yes___]
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