The responses to the last fortnight's Fun Online Poll were as follows:
How many times in your life have you had a paper cup which leaked?
I can't remember it ever happening - 78%
Once - 3%
Two or three times - 9%
Lots of times - 10%
If I take a weighted average of the 109 responses, I get "about one cup per person".
The problem here is that I do not know what the bottom bit of the fraction is. If we use as many per person as in the USA, that's five a week on average. Then I assume an average age of respondents of forty, which means the average respondent has used ten thousand paper cups in his life so far.
So that would mean "about one paper cup in ten thousand leaks" which is pretty good, but the claim made on a television programme that "only one in a million paper cups leaks" appears to be overly optimistic.
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I've not read the small print of the EU Budget for the period 2014-2020, it appears that the total amount of money they have to spend on bribes and propaganda is down slightly to EUR 908 billion, and that our beloved PM, David Cameron, played some part in the negotiations. As ever, it appears that the UK's net contributions will go up anyway, because the EU will curtail the amount they spend on bribes and propaganda in the UK accordingly, but hey.
So that's this week's Fun Online Poll - did Cameron do a good enough job under the circumstances?
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Fun Online Polls: Paper cups and the EU Budget
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