YouGov Profiler

[Lianachan]

Some amusement may be derived from this profiler on the YouGov site.

Simply enter a thing, and it will go off and gather the profiles of those who like it/him/her and create a composite.

I don't think there's any quicker way I could have found out that an average Daily Mail reader is a woman in her 60's who drives a Mercedes, loves cheese and tomato sandwiches and likes Hello Dolly!.

[Heid the Ba]

Some of these are very odd indeed. Snowboarders live in Central Scotland and are right wing, for example.

[MM_Dandy]

People with a special interest in the U.S.A. are typically men aged 25-30 living in London. They tend to overeat, listen to Michael Jackson, watch the National Football League, and drive a Ford. Politically, they are moderately right-leaning.

[Lianachan]

On the other hand, it successfully identifies Better Together supporters as a bunch of gambling wankers, so I'm prepared to trust it.

[Heid the Ba]

Ahem, Ross County fans.

Lord knows what Rangers fans will come up as. Actually I know all too well . . .

[MM_Dandy]

Ahem, Ross County fans.

Lord knows what Rangers fans will come up as. Actually I know all too well . . .

That strikes me as funny because there are only 53, and their favorite sports are tennis and golf.

[Мастер]

It doesn't list anything for Euroweasel. However, it helpfully suggests that maybe Eurotrash is what was wanted. And people with an interest in Eurotrash are male from the age of 40-59, with social grade ABC1 (what's that?), mostly from the midlands, pretty far left politically, work in architecture and interior design, and have monthly spare income of £500 to £999.

[Lianachan]

That strikes me as funny because there are only 53, and their favorite sports are tennis and golf.

That doesn't surprise me in the slightest, the way this season is going. I see we would describe ourselves as "unmotivated", whereas Rangers fans are "depressed".

[Heid the Ba]

It doesn't list anything for Euroweasel. However, it helpfully suggests that maybe Eurotrash is what was wanted. And people with an interest in Eurotrash are male from the age of 40-59, with social grade ABC1 (what's that?), mostly from the midlands, pretty far left politically, work in architecture and interior design, and have monthly spare income of £500 to £999.

Eurotrash was a scummy Channel 4 programme about 20 years ago, late night and showed lady parts so the 20-30 male demographic who watched it then would be, ahem, my age now.

Edit ABC1 doesn't mean what I thought it did, it goes further down than I thought.

Edit2: Tag fixin'

[Arneb]

Supporters of the German National Footbal team tend to live in Northern and Western Scotland and be typical 40-59 yo bores, with 500-999 quid/mo spare income, Patrock Moore as the favourite celebrity and Drop Box as the favourite mobile application. Totally surprisingly, you hear sentences like "I won'T touch genetically modified food" and "I find the idea of being in debt stressful".

Any surprises there?

[Arneb]

Oh, and even less of a surpirse: They won't allow "porn" as a search term. Instead you get Korn (musician) and variations on Pork. "Sex" only appears as Sex Tape, Sex Pistols, Sex and the City (TV programme), Sex and the City (movie) and Masters of Sex.

Yawn.

[MM_Dandy]

"Adult" "Adult Entertainment" "Adult Novelty", etc. are also not allowed.

Speaking of unsurprising, people who have a professional interest in information technology are everything you'd expect them to be.

[Arneb]

Yeah, when are they going to tell us something that isn't covered by our prejudice anyway?

[MM_Dandy]

People who like YouGov.

[Lianachan]

Oh well played.

[tubeswell]

It won't do 'Fender Jazzmaster' apparently, or even just 'Jazzmaster'.