The final results of yesterday's retail survey are now in.
The blue bars are readers of diamond geezer (sample size 100).
The red bars are the national result (sample size 12388).
What kind of shopper are you?
Shopomaniac (2 votes)
2%
19%
Promiscuous (29 votes)
29%
27%
Open-minded (40 votes)
40%
29%
Hard to get (24 votes)
24%
17%
Celibate (5 votes)
5%
9%
So, what have we discovered?
• Readers of diamond geezer are more careful with their money than the public at large. We exhibit a typical 'normal' distribution - high in the centre and tailing off at both ends - whereas the population at large are bunched nearer the top of the list. I congratulate you on your collective level-headedness.
• Readers of this blog are ten times less likely than the rest of the population to be shopomaniacs. This is presumably because real shopomaniacs don't have time to fritter away on the internet when they could be sitting in shoeshops.
• There are approximately the same number of promiscuous shoppers reading this webpage as you might expect to find in real life. I do hope that my font size is showing up clearly as you read this on the touchscreen of your wi-fi handheld.
• My survey results suggest that you're generally an open-minded bunch, by which I mean that you tend to think before you buy, not that you go to cash-swapping parties. I'd expect nothing less.
• The results also suggest that you're more likely to play hard to get than the average Briton - coy with credit and bashful with bling. I can relate to that.
• I seem to have about half the expected number of celibate readers - those who never splash out with hard cash but keep their hands firmly in their pockets. Almost 1 in 10 of Britons fall into this category, but presumably most of them haven't even heard of the internet, let alone considered using it.
• As for me, I put myself in the hard to get category. I couldn't stoop to labelling myself financially celibate (my shopping basket is rarely confined to just loo roll and binliners) but I am still down in the lowest-spending quarter of the population. I think continued therapy is called for.
Retail therapy (survey results)
