Saturn winning this because it is the only planet without a sizeable gender gap, you know, I really didn't see that coming. - ThreadSky

thatmarkelliott.bsky.social•31 days ago

The persecution of Pluto continues... 🥹

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richardbrown.bsky.social•31 days ago

Saturnz Return.

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amski.bsky.social•31 days ago

On Saturn, people live to be two hundred and five, it's only natural

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absolutelynotpc.bsky.social•30 days ago

Is it OK not to need to have an opinion?

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stephenkb.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes, of course. Look how many people replied with “don’t know”.

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heawood.bsky.social•31 days ago

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rajacexplains.bsky.social•31 days ago

I wondered where the hell this guy got his PhD from. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a court shut his alma mater, Columbia Pacific University, in 2000.

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gorillamush.bsky.social•31 days ago

Extraordinary data. Who would have thought there's a gender gap in what planets you like. For what it's worth, Saturn, cos the rings are cool, and Venus because of its atmosphere.

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gorillamush.bsky.social•31 days ago

And Jupiter, because I've seen its moons through binos.

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rootlesscosmo.bsky.social•31 days ago

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jamesmoar.bsky.social•31 days ago

Kyle Baker fans in shambles.

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leegill.bsky.social•31 days ago

Hmm, like most men (apparently), my answer would be Mars. Unlike most men (I’d guess), I feel that way because Sailor Mars was objectively the hottest sailor… person (not sure what the collective term here is).

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aeonmach.bsky.social•31 days ago

I can explain the UK public:
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus bullshit + Saturn is big AND more importantly has rings + small amount of Uranus immaturity + small amount of random weirdness for other obvious outliers + they didn’t include Pluto (rightly: fucking plutoids…).

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ingyingram.bsky.social•31 days ago

Sad they aren't giving Pluto as a retro yet comforting option for the over 35s

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sokz.app•31 days ago

I'm about half a decade younger than this and clearly remember the day when they stole planethood from Pluto. Especially jarring when I had just presented about 9 planets in class the day before.

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naughtfollowers.bsky.social•31 days ago

We like it because they put a ring on it!

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simonharrington.bsky.social•31 days ago

Sizeable gap between mars and venus showing that once again, despite our best efforts, we just cannot engage enough women in electoral politics.

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omaromalleykhan.bsky.social•31 days ago

The Mars/Venus gender splits are maybe less about the planets

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mikewasson.net•31 days ago

Somewhat heartening that the only ones that break double digits are the ones you can easily see unaided. I'd like to think that means that people are, occasionally, looking at the skies. Although I guess for the same reason those have always been the planets with strongest cultural resonance.

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jjbillyd.bsky.social•31 days ago

Initially disappointed about Neptune's showing, great to see it zooming up the charts for the youngest cohort.

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benansell.bsky.social•31 days ago

Has to be a Balatro angle to this.

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blueyhotspurs.bsky.social•31 days ago

I’m not buying this - any man on the street asked “what is your favourite planet?”

Responds with “Uranus!” followed by a little cheeky giggle before walking away proud of himself

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phigar.bsky.social•31 days ago

Surely Earth is the most hospitable.

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nickholmes53.bsky.social•31 days ago

What about Earth?

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stephenkb.bsky.social•31 days ago

Poll question precludes Earth.

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nickholmes53.bsky.social•31 days ago

Spoilsports

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aremay.bsky.social•31 days ago

Stephen! How do you organise a space party?

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stephenkb.bsky.social•31 days ago

You planet, obviously.

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aremay.bsky.social•31 days ago

Goddamnit, well done

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preachypreach.bsky.social•31 days ago

They’re always a bit rubbish though

Toxic atmosphere

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twlldun.bsky.social•31 days ago

You plan a Saturn party by giving a ring around

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alanbenzie.bsky.social•31 days ago

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msalliance.me•31 days ago

Buy party rings

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christiancerisola.bsky.social•30 days ago

Ordering my planets according to which one is the most banging keeps me awake at night.

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sanderwagner.bsky.social•31 days ago

Saturn is the angela merkel of planets, male electoral skew in the party identity, female skew in the personal brand, winning elections...

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danjac.bsky.social•31 days ago

Disappointed to see they polled an insufficient number of 12 year olds in order to get that 4% for Uranus

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cjmckeon.bsky.social•31 days ago

Everyone can get behind eating your own children, clearly

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mkuzmicki.bsky.social•31 days ago

Deeply disappointed by Uranus score. Thought we Brits had a sense of humour.

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baxter74656.bsky.social•31 days ago

And everyone appreciates a nice ring.

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iainl7.bsky.social•31 days ago

All the men saying Mars should be on some sort of register. Those saying Saturn are just after the pretty rings.

Neptune. Now there’s a beautiful planet.

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faceofboe.bsky.social•31 days ago

Register of Ice warriors?

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iainl7.bsky.social•31 days ago

As planets go, there’s something to be said for it (solid ground to stand on, for a start) but Musk as ruined it entirely.

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pascallth.bsky.social•31 days ago

Big rings for all

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bencrang.bsky.social•31 days ago

Um, Earth?

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ianhopkinson.bsky.social•31 days ago

Should have included Pluto, everyone's favourite planet!

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mckelvie.bsky.social•31 days ago

Rings are cool!

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lindsayduff.bsky.social•31 days ago

So's Uranus

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tarquinhh.bsky.social•31 days ago

Technically a ring too

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davedisasterman.bsky.social•31 days ago

It also has them. 13 of 'em! And it's the wrong way round.

Uranus is very cool...

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alexdecampi.bsky.social•31 days ago

This would have been a very different result if they’d asked schoolchildren

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stevethegreek.bsky.social•31 days ago

🤣🤣🤣

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emmaburnell.bsky.social•31 days ago

I guess everyone wants to put a ring on it….

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preachypreach.bsky.social•31 days ago

British people just love eating their children, Stephen

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carljefferson.bsky.social•31 days ago

Is there one for moons? I'd vote for the death star one.

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sueryan66bskysocia.bsky.social•31 days ago

Not everyone is as puerile as me obviously. I mean come on, it has to be Uranus.

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emmagoldsmith.bsky.social•31 days ago

Hopelessly flawed poll - where's Pluto?!

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alancrowe.bsky.social•31 days ago

Bad news - Pluto was reclassified as a minor planet in 2006.

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thomas.escritt.eu•30 days ago

Surprised Jupiter doesn't have much of a gender gap. Would have assumed it was a man-coded planet. Also christ YG have trolled me again fk

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hawksland.bsky.social•31 days ago

Got to be Uranus, never fails to make me smile

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simonl6.bsky.social•31 days ago

Good to see so many Sun Ra fans on the Yougov panel.

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vickybarlow.bsky.social•31 days ago

I really suspect the female Don’t Know vote was really the “seriously? What kind of loser has a favourite planet?! Ohhhhh men…”

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faceofboe.bsky.social•31 days ago

Obviously the real best planet is Mondas.

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lindsayduff.bsky.social•31 days ago

Truly disappointed in my fellow Brits that Uranus isn't winning. Poor commitment to the joke.

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laragh.bsky.social•31 days ago

Those don’t knows really bothered me.

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petew44.bsky.social•31 days ago

This just gives me an excuse to wheel out the greatest poll of all time, where nearly a quarter of British people said they wouldn’t want to visit the moon because they’re just not interested, and 11% said there’s “not enough to see/do on the moon”. I will defend this country with my life.

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midnightsheep.bsky.social•27 days ago

Pedantically: this is the breakdown of the reasons from among those who had previously responded that they would not wish to go. We do not know (unless I missed it), what percentage of overall responses this is. So that’s 23% of X, not 23% of British people.

It remains howlingly funny, regardless.

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mrmustard.bsky.social•31 days ago

Except - and I really hate to be *that* guy - but that’s not what the poll says at all. 23% of Brits *who had already indicated they didn’t want to go to the moon* gave that reason. It’s not clear what percentage of people polled said they did/did not want to visit the moon.

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stephenkb.bsky.social•31 days ago

You love to be that guy, because you couldn't even scroll down to see someone had a) already pointed this out and b) answered your follow-up question!

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mrmustard.bsky.social•31 days ago

Fair. I was too annoyed by someone’s anti-Birmingham comment to scroll further.

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simon.posts.dog•31 days ago

It’s full of Americans anyway. Might as well go down Oxford Street

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stephenkb.bsky.social•31 days ago

The one that really makes me start singing 'Land of Hope and Glory' are the near one in ten rejecting the premise that your safety could be guaranteed.

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cooraysmith.bsky.social•31 days ago

One of them was me.

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tpgroberts.bsky.social•31 days ago

Wonder if that has gone up or down since all the Boeing stories

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lottelydia.bsky.social•31 days ago

I also reject this premise!!!!

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liberaljimocrat.bsky.social•31 days ago

Look, YouGov may be dab hands with an MRP, but their record in crewed space flight is thin at best

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faceofboe.bsky.social•31 days ago

I watch, read and think about space. I don't have to go there. I feel broadly the same about, say, Birmingham apart from the watching reading and thinking bits.

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faceofboe.bsky.social•31 days ago

I mean, I'd be one of them. Also, what would I do on the moon. It's a big old no from me. My dad though, he always wanted to go into space. He would have gone to the moon like a shot. Just to be there. I do want the UFP obvs but I'd be one of the people who loved it from the comfort of my house.

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burntcopper.bsky.social•31 days ago

I have the issue that my lungs need a lot of humidity to work properly. Looks a tad dry up there and in the space station.

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petew44.bsky.social•31 days ago

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theangelremiel.bsky.social•31 days ago

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gorillamush.bsky.social•31 days ago

Ffs. I'd go tomorrow.

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zedayseekay.bsky.social•31 days ago

That 4% is actually pretty encouraging. Shows how much this here platform and The Other One artificially magnify the whatabouttery.

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rjmrgn.bsky.social•31 days ago

I just relayed this to my wife and she said “wait, do those people mean ‘I’M too old’ or ‘THE MOON is too old’?”

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mysteron2.bsky.social•31 days ago

Personally speaking I would live to visit the Moon. I know that at my age it will probably never happen, but I can hope.

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andystoin.bsky.social•31 days ago

Personally, I wouldn't go because I'm not a huge Wensleydale fan

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bobborsley.bsky.social•31 days ago

There is a documentary about this:

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bquilty.bsky.social•31 days ago

Gotta be that guy and say it's the proportion of people within those that said they wouldn't want to go to the moon, so it's a smaller fraction of the overall population (0.23*0.48 = ~11%)

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banditsmum.bsky.social•31 days ago

Love that we're really drilling into the detail on this!

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davidlambert.bsky.social•31 days ago

This is the pedantry I'm here for!

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phillyrothers.bsky.social•31 days ago

Nearly as proud as that poll in which Brits put hobbies ahead of family. ♥️🇬🇧

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londondiscuss.bsky.social•31 days ago

My fave is 'Too old'. Because we don't know whether they are referring to themselves, or the moon.

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gjeff.bsky.social•31 days ago

Maybe us oldsters are too concerned about having adequate toilet facilities for the journey.

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totallygone.bsky.social•31 days ago

Although I’d expect “I’d rather wipe my a**e with my money that give it to Besoz/Branson” to feature somewhere, but imagine it was recorded as “resources should be directed to hospitals etc”.

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steveprior.bsky.social•31 days ago

Finally, something that makes me proud to be British.

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folkparanoia.bsky.social•31 days ago

I love that "I reject the premise of the question" was an option - it should be in every poll, next to "Don't know"

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alanbeattie.bsky.social•31 days ago

Basically filters out all the smart-arse humanities graduates who know the tricks for writing essays.

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cornwallchar.bsky.social•31 days ago

see also: press officers

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katemaltby.bsky.social•31 days ago

I reject the punctuation of Option 3. Surely a parenthesis is needed around (on Earth), or perhaps a comma after ‘other places’. Otherwise things get very complicated.

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cornwallchar.bsky.social•31 days ago

Oh goodness, yes - that does change everything

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dannyvandal.bsky.social•31 days ago

“Nothing to see”😂

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se13ed.bsky.social•31 days ago

"you can see Earth" "but I've just *come* from there!"

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banditsmum.bsky.social•31 days ago

This is brilliant. I am going to follow you just for bringing this chart into my life!!

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mattwest72.bsky.social•31 days ago

Convinced that you would get almost identical results if you replaced "moon" with "Birmingham".

Possibly a few more people writing in 'barren, lifeless wasteland'

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chrisfk.bsky.social•31 days ago

Groan. 40 year old "Birmingham is a sh*thole" cliche. You should try visiting this vibrant, lively, friendly city. You might actually like it!

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clairebradley.bsky.social•31 days ago

l went there recently and was really impressed. lt really is a vibrant and friendly city!

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mattwest72.bsky.social•31 days ago

Yeah, in all seriousness it's a good place, especially now they've sorted out some of the post war awfulness.

Wolverhampton on the other hand....

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alistaircoleman.bsky.social•31 days ago

No option for “The so-called ‘Moon’ is just a light fixed to the firmament”.

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markspurs.bsky.social•31 days ago

The Clangers will never come after us for reparations.

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webweasel.bsky.social•30 days ago

They got a new tablecloth, what more do they want?

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danreidnelson.bsky.social•31 days ago

I love that there was an option to reject the entire premise of the poll (that it's guaranteed safe)

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maggie-perhaps.bsky.social•31 days ago

“Can’t get a decent cup of tea” presumably wasn’t on the list of options

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benfrancis.bsky.social•31 days ago

If NASA has figured out how to keep astronauts alive, healthy, and in regular communication with ground control but have not invented a space cuppa they've got their priorities wrong.

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maggie-perhaps.bsky.social•31 days ago

I don’t think Americans have mastered making tea on earth yet, never mind in space

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canariesdownunder.bsky.social•31 days ago

That is one of the greatest polls I have ever seen 👏

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lizardky.bsky.social•31 days ago

So, clearly, there IS a market for a Lunar Theme Park, if the "lack of things to do" is a key problem.

(Singing) "Oh, we're whalers on the moon
We carry our harpoons..."

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helenbarnard.bsky.social•31 days ago

I think I'd get travel sick. I can't even get a coach to Lincoln.

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johnmclachlan.bsky.social•31 days ago

Aha but is that because you live on the moon?

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sanerefrain.bsky.social•30 days ago

90% "not open to visiting other places on earth" ?

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petermiles.bsky.social•31 days ago

I think most of us would just prefer to sit down with a nice cup of tea, wouldn't we?

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petermiles.bsky.social•31 days ago

Although just as I posted that, I realised I would go.

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webweasel.bsky.social•30 days ago

If only for the cheese 🧀

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joseph-yossarian.bsky.social•31 days ago

👍

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mctoneski.bsky.social•31 days ago

Ace. Just ace. 7% too far. That's the reason people haven't been to Llandudno

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markpackuk.bsky.social•31 days ago

Only 5% picking 'scared' is impressive braggadocio.

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paulsrkendal.bsky.social•31 days ago

I'm more worried by the larger numbers who are excited by it. Why?

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steveprior.bsky.social•31 days ago

I mean, Paul, I’m guessing it’s riding the hydrogen bomb up there and the parachute flight back rather than the dust. But I could be wrong…

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thornfieldhall.bsky.social•31 days ago

Puts me in mind of the Google Reviews from people unimpressed by
Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park

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areamancm.bsky.social•31 days ago

Still disappointed none of the responses were “no atmosphere”

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kennymathieson.bsky.social•31 days ago

A “limited atmosphere”, surely? 🤓

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areamancm.bsky.social•31 days ago

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kennymathieson.bsky.social•31 days ago

😊👍🏻

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alistaircoleman.bsky.social•31 days ago

They obviously didn’t ask Russ Abbott

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jenniferheidi.bsky.social•31 days ago

NO POINT

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duncancorns.bsky.social•31 days ago

No atmosphere

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gneill.bsky.social•31 days ago

"Resource for space travel could be better used on earthly concerns" is one of the greatest virtue signalling answers I've ever seen. Exquisite.

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gearyjen.bsky.social•31 days ago

“Too far away” 😂

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john-self.bsky.social•31 days ago

I remember this at the time and I’m with the 11%! Anything we want to see or do in other countries is the product of its history and culture. None of that on the Moon, so it’s a meh from me.

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john-self.bsky.social•31 days ago

At a stretch I’d do a Philip Larkin, who said “I wouldn’t mind going to China if I could come back the same day.”

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cjayanetti.bsky.social•31 days ago

men voting uranus cos "geddit, your anus"

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brucehayward.bsky.social•31 days ago

Inevitable

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redeye555.bsky.social•31 days ago

No, Uranus, not mine.

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rpalm.bsky.social•31 days ago

I got it...
Jokez. Serious bantz!

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andyw76.bsky.social•31 days ago

Largest Male/Female split, because "Beavis & Butthead"

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instography.bsky.social•31 days ago

Mars and Uranus - both bum gags.

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ralucahippie.bsky.social•31 days ago

Uranus is a gas giant, tee hee hee hee hee hee hee.
Sorry, I have an incredibly sophomoric sense of humour.

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cjayanetti.bsky.social•31 days ago

(I endorse this btw)

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rickmiles.bsky.social•30 days ago

Like, not to be that guy, but, don't 4 of them have the same or less than the two points gap?

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stephenkb.bsky.social•30 days ago

Does, uh, anything else jump out to you about those four? People who 'hate to be that guy' love to be that guy to the point they can't wait to miss a point in their haste to be that guy!

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stephenkb.bsky.social•30 days ago

(Neptune, Uranus, Mercury, and Jupiter are all miles off the pace with everybody.)

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rickmiles.bsky.social•29 days ago

You didn't say 'Saturn and Mars are way out in front, Saturn has a smaller gender gap' though. Perhaps I have missed a veiled point. It doesn't really matter. I probably am that guy.

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michael-fox.bsky.social•31 days ago

I’m going to assume the 28% were holding out their hopes for Pluto

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theangelofhistory.bsky.social•31 days ago

Lisa Nandy says Saturn is winning because it’s more representative of contemporary Britain than the bbc

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adambutterworth.bsky.social•30 days ago

I would like to see a follow-up on peoples' favourite of Holst's Planet Suite so that we can attempt to identify if there's any confounding effect from people thinking 'Mars, the Bringer of War' is a banger.

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mckay.me.uk•31 days ago

Man are for Mars, women are for ... Saturn?

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mariosrichards.bsky.social•31 days ago

You report on UK politics and you didn't see this one winning?

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mariosrichards.bsky.social•31 days ago

Strictly speaking it *was* 50+ that push it over the line ... but it's a really unusual pattern of DKs that rises rather than falls with age.

Could be an education effect ... but weren't they prompted on the options?

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dylandifford.bsky.social•31 days ago

Old fart effect. DK is always higher among young for ordinary poll Qs, but higher among old for anything fun/frivolous.

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leftback.bsky.social•31 days ago

You're going to have to rename that, regardless if it was the basis of your PhD.

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mariosrichards.bsky.social•31 days ago

Just translate it to latin (Vetus inflatio?).

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ralucahippie.bsky.social•31 days ago

I think în general men are less likely to say "Don't know" to anything in polls than women? Because God forbid they admit there are things they don't know, lest their masculinity would wither and die.

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mariosrichards.bsky.social•30 days ago

Well actually ... uh.

Yeah, that's a check mate.

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nadinebm.bsky.social•31 days ago

May be don't care rather than don't know.

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