Over the last two weeks I've been posting surveys to my LiveJournal account see how my friends (and sometimes larger invited communities of fur-wearing folks) feel about certain issues. Here are some of the more interesting results:

If you were to need to write about multiple Madonnas 57% said to use "Virgin Marys" while 30% think it should be "Virgins Mary."

Out of the 32 people who voted in the phone survey, 100% have used a cell phone, and 0% have used a public pay telephone in the last two months.

A combined 52% of my friends prefer their dance music between 120 and 155 beats per minute. Only 14% would prefer it not be played at all.

The Baltimore residents in the traffic safety poll voted on the safest speed to drive I-695 during the day out of 5 mph increments. The mean answer was 69.32 mph, the median was 65 mph (32% voted for this) and the standard deviation among answers was 6.96 mph. This coincides pretty well with actual beltway traffic.

On the topic of Nalgene bottles, 68% of respondents don't care.

The greatest number of respondents (79%) thought it was all right to bring a personal magazine into the office restroom stall. As many people (13%) thought it was all right to bring food into the stall as it was to bring a cell phone to have a conversation. If using the cell phone for SMS, 58% said it was okay.

Caffeine consumption peaked at "several cups of coffee" per day at 42%, while 17% consume no caffeine at all. No one consumes over 3 grams per day.

Surprisingly, people who don't wear a wristwatch outnumbered those who wear an analog wristwatch by over 2 to 1. Only 3% of respondents wear a digital watch.

Owners of only automatic transmission cars made up 50% of the respondents, to only 31% who only own manual transmissions. A surprising 6% are hippies who own no car at all.

Guys who take their scrotum out of their pants to pee in a urinal at the office made up 40% of the votes, while normal folk who leave their "boys" in the dark made up a respectable 60%.

In public restrooms, more people kick (55%) than pull (46%) the handle on a commercial flush toilet.

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