According to three separate polls released on Thursday, a majority of men are pretty sure that the woman calling them to ask their opinion about politics and stuff was seriously hitting on them.
While each survey covered a wide variety subjects, the similarities were surprising in that nearly two-thirds of men felt a connection developing with their pollster and could totally see them getting together.
“The polls couldn’t be more different with regards to the topics being addressed, but in each case the men in the surveys were quite sure that there was some electricity between them and the women in our call center,” said Thomas Gaylord, an analyst with Kingston Market Research who conducted the polls. ”It was surprising because it didn’t matter if our pollsters were hot, they just needed to sound attractive.”
The pollsters are trained to be kind and courteous to ensure those being questioned feel comfortable and remain on the phone, but Gaylord believes these startling findings may have something to do with a natural reaction by most men who get a phone call from a strange woman.
“This type of interaction these men are getting is not something that happens very often,” Gaylord said, referring to an exchange where a seemingly pretty woman has any interest in what they have to say. “We are beginning to suspect that something in their brain switches on so that any ounce of civility and friendliness can easily be misinterpreted as burning sexual tension.”
Gaylord’s theory that their pleasant demeanor and feigned interest can be misconstrued by male respondents as flirtatious signaling is further supported by statements of the men surveyed.
“I could tell she was totally in to me by her genuine interest in what I had to say about eating genetically engineered seafood,” said Minneapolis-area respondent Joel Matthews. “I said ‘no way’, and she thought that was great and then she asked me more questions. I felt like she was beginning to know who I was as a person.
Matthews response was typical among men in the same poll. Along with 95 percent of the public wanting these foods to labeled as being genetically engineered, nearly two-thirds of the men surveyed felt like they “really had something there”.
In another poll asking 1,451 likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire which presidential hopeful they would support, 39 percent picked Romney, 16 percent chose Palin and 64 percent of men surveyed suspected that the woman on the phone was “hitting on them in some weird way” and “might seriously be open to grabbing a coffee or something.”
In a survey conducted by Monster.com about employment outlooks for 2011, it was revealed that while 42 percent of respondents expected their job prospects to get better in the coming year, and a third thought the jobs forecast to worsen, over half of the men surveyed wondered if the canvasser was seeing anyone and felt that “she would totally go for a guy like me”.
Polling companies may be changing their procedures with reports surfacing of men contacting call centers asking to talk to particular pollsters. They often requested to continue their conversations about “the NFL’s new rules on helmet-to-helmet hits, the likability of Barack Obama, or you know, whatever you’d like to talk about.”
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