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Posted on February 21st, 2011 by Chris in Polls, tags: BBC, meetings, Nokia, poll, sauna, Stephen Elop
Nokia‘s new CEO, Stephen Elop, an American, is challenging the long-standing corporate tradition of holding business meetings in the sauna, according to the BBC.
The lowering of boundaries by shedding outer layers of clothing and experiencing a communal sweat has been cited by some as an ideal place to get things out in the open and come to a quick decision. Others feel that these same factors result in an exclusionary culture, that keeps the modest away from important business decisions.
How do you feel? Let us know in our poll.

Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, an American, is challenging the long-standing corporate tradition of holding business meetings in the sauna, according to the BBC.
The lowering of boundaries by shedding outer layers of clothing and experiencing a communal sweat has been cited by some as an ideal place to get things out in the open and come to a quick decision. Others feel that these same factors result in an exclusionary culture, that keeps the modest away from important business decisions.
How do you feel? Let us know in our poll.
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Posted on November 16th, 2010 by Chris in news, Your Body, tags: body image, France, IFOP, Indexed, naked, nudity, poll, research, USA Today
 From Indexed (with a slight modification)
We saw this cartoon last week on the excellent web comic Indexed, and it got us thinking, about how many people are missing out on the joys of sauna because of poor body image.
We started a poll here in March 2010 asking you what you would do if you encountered a sauna full of naked people. As of today, 87% of you said you would strip down and head in, including 89% of the Americans who responded.
We know our survey is biased, so we looked for some more mass-market validation. American newspaper USA Today has a poll running on its website asking if they would bare it all at the beach. 44% of the 16,000 respondents so far have said yes, and only 41% said no.
That 41% is about the same amount who said that they were unhappy with their bodies in a Glamour magazine survey of 16,000 of their readers from early 2009.
Most detailed and most telling was a survey by French pollsters IFOP. In April of 2009 they surveyed 1000 French women representative of the whole French population to gauge their attitudes about nudity and themselves. One expects the French to be liberal, but the poll results don’t seem to support this.
48% of French women said they are bothered by the sight of another woman’s naked body at a nude beach. 40% were bothered by another woman in a locker room.
When asked what situations they had personally been naked in public before, only 1/3 had ever been naked in a locker room, and only 13% had ever bared it all on a public beach.
The survey also asked the women whether or not they liked their bodies. 52% of French women do not. Women who liked their bodies a lot were three times as likely to bare it all in a locker room as those who didn’t like their bodies a lot, and were more than twice as likely to have visited a nude beach.
Going back to our webcomic at the top of this post, this French survey refutes her graph. Women over 65 were least likely to go naked in the locker room. Women between 35 and 49 were the most likely (30 vs 36%). However, more than half of all women under age 25 were bothered by the sight of another woman naked in the locker room.
If you know of any more resources on this, let us know in the comments.
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We saw this cartoon last week on the excellent web comic Indexed, and it got us thinking, about how many people are missing out on the joys of sauna because of poor body image.
We started a poll here in March 2010 asking you what you would do if you encountered a sauna full of naked people. As of today, 87% of you said you would strip down and head in, including 89% of the Americans who responded.
We know our survey is biased, so we looked for some more mass-market validation. American newspaper USA Today has a poll running on its website asking if they would bare it all at the beach. 44% of the 16,000 respondents so far have said yes, and only 41% said no.
That 41% is about the same amount who said that they were unhappy with their bodies in a Glamour magazine survey of 16,000 of their readers from early 2009.
Most detailed and most telling was a survey by French pollsters IFOP. In April of 2009 they surveyed 1000 French women representative of the whole French population to gauge their attitudes about nudity and themselves. One expects the French to be liberal, but the poll results don't seem to support this.
48% of French women said they are bothered by the sight of another woman's naked body at a nude beach. 40% were bothered by another woman in a locker room.
When asked what situations they had personally been naked in public before, only 1/3 had ever been naked in a locker room, and only 13% had ever bared it all on a public beach.
The survey also asked the women whether or not they liked their bodies. 52% of French women do not. Women who liked their bodies a lot were three times as likely to bare it all in a locker room as those who didn't like their bodies a lot, and were more than twice as likely to have visited a nude beach.
Going back to our webcomic at the top of this post, this French survey refutes her graph. Women over 65 were least likely to go naked in the locker room. Women between 35 and 49 were the most likely (30 vs 36%). However, more than half of all women under age 25 were bothered by the sight of another woman naked in the locker room.
If you know of any more resources on this, let us know in the comments.
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Posted on November 1st, 2010 by Chris in Polls, tweets, tags: hot, poll, sauna
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Welcome to all of you arriving from SodaHead! We’re so grateful to the SodaHead team for giving us a SODASTAR today for what we thought was just a humble little poll.
Thanks for taking the time to click through. If you like what you see, why don’t you subscribe to our Feed or by Email? If you’re looking for a place to see if you can take the heat, why not search for a sauna near you? Better yet, if you know of one we don’t have listed, tell us about it.
For anyone wondering what SodaHead is, it’s the service that hosts our polls, like the one sitting in the left sidebar there. (If you haven’t already, take a minute to vote and share your opinion on this pressing issue.) Every day, they pick a poll for each of their categories and feature it as the daily “SODASTAR.” From the looks of it, we beat out Phone-Sex Working Moms, Fat Burning Underwear, and The Mom Who Had Her 5-Year Old Arrested. Tough competition indeed!
Welcome to all of you arriving from SodaHead! We're so grateful to the SodaHead team for giving us a SODASTAR today for what we thought was just a humble little poll.
Thanks for taking the time to click through. If you like what you see, why don't you subscribe to our Feed or by Email? If you're looking for a place to see if you can take the heat, why not search for a sauna near you? Better yet, if you know of one we don't have listed, tell us about it.
For anyone wondering what SodaHead is, it's the service that hosts our polls, like the one sitting in the left sidebar there. (If you haven't already, take a minute to vote and share your opinion on this pressing issue.) Every day, they pick a poll for each of their categories and feature it as the daily "SODASTAR." From the looks of it, we beat out Phone-Sex Working Moms, Fat Burning Underwear, and The Mom Who Had Her 5-Year Old Arrested. Tough competition indeed!
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Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Chris in Polls, tags: Germany, naked, poll
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Posted on February 19th, 2009 by Chris in Polls, tags: naked, poll
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