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You beat me to it Rincewind. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I was just about to post a similar opinion. I really can't imagine anybody seriously trudging round Universities and Kindergartens with clipboards polling such a thing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

It's really just a bit of 'decoration' added to create some atmosphere for the riddle. But it does tie in with my own research that shows that 92.7% of people who read forums can be fooled by a smart looking statistic. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/stupid.gif" alt="" />