Thierry Henry was chosen as the sexiest football player at the 2010 in a poll on a French dating site, surpassing players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Fernando Torres or Rafael van der Vaart. Over 1500 French women have voted in a poll started by French dating site firstaffair.fr, asking them who they’d rather go to bed [...]
Junior Achievement-Allstate Foundation Survey Shows Too Many Teens Fall Short in Understanding Money Basics as U.S. Faces Economic Crossroads. As economists, elected officials and the American public ponder how to strengthen the U.S. economy by rebalancing the nation’s spending and consumption with savings and investment, an alarming majority of U.S. teens say they lack the [...]
Fiberlink Survey Finds Workers Blatantly Put Their Own and Their Customers’ Data in Danger A new Fiberlink Poll published showed that more than one in ten U.S. workers admit to knowingly violating the policies put in place by their companies’ IT departments in order to get their work done. Harris Interactive conducted the study for [...]
Sandra Bullock has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2009 in Quigley Publishing Company’s 78th Annual Poll of Exhibitors and is the first female to win since Julia Roberts in 1999. Bullock is the eighth woman chosen #1 in the Poll’s 78 year history. She appeared in three films in 2009, “The Blind Side,” [...]
National Cyber Security Alliance Finds that Security Questions Cause Online Retailers to Lose Sales As Americans gear up for the holiday shopping season and Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season on November 23, it is clear that Web site security plays a major part in consumers’ purchasing decisions, according to [...]
Voters want the EPA to be given more power to regulate chemicals A poll conducted in August by Lake Research Partners found Americans very concerned with how chemicals are regulated for consumer use in the U.S. The findings come as overhaul of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) will be introduced soon in both [...]
Mexicans also Feel Mexican-Americans Should Be Loyal to Mexico A new survey by Zogby International finds that people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal immigrants would encourage more illegal immigration to the United States. As the top immigrant-sending country for both legal and illegal immigrants, views on immigration in Mexico can provide [...]
Majorities around the world support governments playing an active role in stimulating and regulating their national economy in response to the current recession, according to a new poll conducted for BBC World Service. The survey found that an average of three in five (60%) citizens — and majorities in 13 of the 20 countries polled [...]