Ad poll results

[cdybedahl]

There's been no new responses to the ad poll for more than 24 hours now, so let's sum up the results.

To keep the anonymity, I assigned numerical values to the alternatives and then calculated the averages for the various countries. The numbers range from 1, which is the "Little or none" alternative, to 4, which is the "No way that ad would be used here" alternative. And note that all results are the guesses of people living there, except for here in Sweden where the ad actually was used and nobody cared.

The winner, in some sense of the word, by a large margin is Malaysia, which got a solid 4.0 average. Second place goes to, and this surprised me, New Zealand which gets an average of 2.5 and just edges out the USA with their 2.45. UK is next with 2.2. Canada, Denmark and Australia all get 2.0, and finally Sweden and Belgium get 1.0. The country with the largest spread in the responses is Australia.

The average over all responses is 2.18. The majority of the responders were from the UK, with the USA following very shortly behind.

Comments

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

The US is impossible to judge as an entire country. What won't get a second glance in the coastal cities is abomination in Wyoming or Utah. The same is true to varying extents in all countries, but the sheer size of the US and the tendency for people to enclave themselves within a certain state makes it even more problematical. It needs a state-by-state breakdown.

The UK really surprises me, because given some of the ads that have run there, I can't imagine why people would have scored it a 3.