17% of Americans Disgust Me
Yep, you read that right, but before you slag me want to know why? Because 17% of americans don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom in public! That’s just plain gross, but it generally agrees with my own observations, and it’s the result of a recent study by the American Society for Microbiology and the Soap and Detergent Association. The article states that researches actually observed 6,336 people in public restrooms, so it sounds like their results might be accurate – of course I’d be curious to know the details of how exactly they observed bathroom-goers, especially because I suspect that more people wash their hands if they think somebody else is washing.
In any case, anything less than 100% is a dramatic failure in our society. Shame on everyone who doesn’t wash their hands!
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[...] We wrote about the recent survey on hand washing habits awhile back, but it’s been getting so much press recently I thought it was time to revisit it. A quick reminder: not everybody washes their hands after going to the bathroom. That isn’t cool, and most stories have done a pretty good job reporting on that fact. Sometimes though, people’s disturbingly bad math skills really get me – take the following quote, discussing a fictional scenario of a woman lunching with her boyfriend: [...]
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