Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 12:34:03 GMT
I'm on the YouGov polling panel, and recently they started up a mobile app through which they ask three questions every day. The topics are wide-ranging (read random?), and they're less formal than the normal polls, but I think they are using it to test how this subset correlates to the wider panel; a couple of weeks back they did ask voting intention questions, and reported back that the results were close to their whole panel results, and much closer than they expected (to an extent this is a self-selecting sample, as you have to volunteer yourself to go on, and then actually answer the questions).
I'm not going to post every day's 3 questions, as that would be mostly boring and irrelevant to this forum, but when they are at least tangentially political, I'll try and put them up.
Today's three related to executive pay. Sample size, as I type this, 1691.
Q1: Imagine a big successful British company (a plc with around 10,000 employees) where the lowest-paid regular employee receives around £15,000 annually. If you were a shareholder of that company, what do you think might be the right upper limit for its boss (including bonus for good performance and all additional benefits)?
A: (allowed to choose 1)
24% - There is no 'right' upper limit
17% - About five times, i.e. £75,000
27% - About ten times, i.e. £150,000
9% - About fifteen times, i.e. £225,000
11% - About twenty times, i.e. £300,000 [this was my choice - I was surprised that a lefty like me was at the higher end!]
6% - About thirty times, i.e. £450,000
4% - About fifty times, i.e. £750,000
3% - About a hundred times, i.e. £1.5million
1% - More than that
4% - Don't know
Q2: Whatever you thought for the first question, do you think it should be imposed by law or only morally urged by society? Or is it just a matter for shareholders?
A: (allowed to choose 1)
18% - It should be imposed by law [my choice, of course]
39% - It should be strongly urged by society
40% - It's just a matter for shareholders
3% - Don't know
Q3: There's a wild mix of 10 statements below. Please tick ALL the ones you agree with!
A: (allowed to choose any number)
65% - The difference in salaries has become morally unacceptable [mine; suspect this strongly correlates with not picking option 3 in Q2]
29% - Inequailty is inevitable, stop moaning
21% - Some salaries are outrageous, but it's not a big problem
47% - I want a more equal society [me; higher than I'd expected]
47% - Equality is a fine idea but doesn't work in practice [probably a lot who chose the previous answer also chose this]
8% - I approve of unfettered capitalism [Much, much lower than I'd expected]
29% - I approve of highly regulated capitalism [me; the killer is of course the interpretation of 'highly regulated']
5% - I disapprove of al forms of capitalism
3% - I want true communism
50% - I have no faith in politics
1% - None of these
I'm not going to post every day's 3 questions, as that would be mostly boring and irrelevant to this forum, but when they are at least tangentially political, I'll try and put them up.
Today's three related to executive pay. Sample size, as I type this, 1691.
Q1: Imagine a big successful British company (a plc with around 10,000 employees) where the lowest-paid regular employee receives around £15,000 annually. If you were a shareholder of that company, what do you think might be the right upper limit for its boss (including bonus for good performance and all additional benefits)?
A: (allowed to choose 1)
24% - There is no 'right' upper limit
17% - About five times, i.e. £75,000
27% - About ten times, i.e. £150,000
9% - About fifteen times, i.e. £225,000
11% - About twenty times, i.e. £300,000 [this was my choice - I was surprised that a lefty like me was at the higher end!]
6% - About thirty times, i.e. £450,000
4% - About fifty times, i.e. £750,000
3% - About a hundred times, i.e. £1.5million
1% - More than that
4% - Don't know
Q2: Whatever you thought for the first question, do you think it should be imposed by law or only morally urged by society? Or is it just a matter for shareholders?
A: (allowed to choose 1)
18% - It should be imposed by law [my choice, of course]
39% - It should be strongly urged by society
40% - It's just a matter for shareholders
3% - Don't know
Q3: There's a wild mix of 10 statements below. Please tick ALL the ones you agree with!
A: (allowed to choose any number)
65% - The difference in salaries has become morally unacceptable [mine; suspect this strongly correlates with not picking option 3 in Q2]
29% - Inequailty is inevitable, stop moaning
21% - Some salaries are outrageous, but it's not a big problem
47% - I want a more equal society [me; higher than I'd expected]
47% - Equality is a fine idea but doesn't work in practice [probably a lot who chose the previous answer also chose this]
8% - I approve of unfettered capitalism [Much, much lower than I'd expected]
29% - I approve of highly regulated capitalism [me; the killer is of course the interpretation of 'highly regulated']
5% - I disapprove of al forms of capitalism
3% - I want true communism
50% - I have no faith in politics
1% - None of these
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