Showing posts with label survey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label survey. Show all posts

Monday, 8 April 2013

When you Fall In Love, You Lose Two Close Friends !!!

Researchers at Oxford University conducted a survey asking people to describe their close circle of friends, and compared the difference between people who were in romantic relationships.
On average, when asked to list the members of their core group of friends, people name 5 friends. People in romantic relationships could only name an average of 4 close relationships. That's an average net loss of 1 person in your friend circle as a result of adding a new person into your life. Typically this means that you lose 2 friends from your group of 5 and then add your new lover to get to a total of 4.
This core group consists of people that you see at least once a week. You may of course have many more peripheral friends. Adding a new lover into the mix will force you to budget your time differently, forcing you to lose touch with an average of 2 people in your core group.

Friday, 22 March 2013

Coke vs. Pepsi

  • Coke drinkers are more likely to have graduated college and speak more than one language.
  • Coke people prefer things like sushi, and might have tasted caviar. Pepsi drinkers prefer American snacks.
  • Coke drinkers read the New York Times, while Pepsi drinkers read the USA Today.
  • Coke drinkers are more likely to own a passport. It's more likely that Pepsi drinkers haven't had a vacation in 6 months. 
  • Coke drinkers are more likely to show up early to an appointment. Pepsi drinkers? On time or late. 
  • What do you think? Of course these are in average, and not representative of every Coke or Pepsi drinker.

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Dreaming.....zzzzzz


  • Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
  • People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
  • Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think you are not dreaming – you just forget your dreams.
  • Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
  • A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.
  • If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.
  • The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.
  • You can have four to seven dreams in one night.
  • Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.
  • Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.
  • Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced déjà vu. 
  • If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.
  • You can experience an orgasm in your dream.