Do you read the Washington Post? If so I bet statistics dictate that you’re a 38 year old (born in 1965) resident of Oak Hill, Virginia (zip code 20171).

I know I personally have been counted as a pushing 40, female Virginian a dozen times or more.

Which is by way of saying, isn’t that interstatial survey that the Post runs lame? And isn’t it nice of them to prompt you with convient, valid answers so you don’t have to make up your own? I try, whenver possible, to always use the example answers to demographic questions. The improbablye spike, as it climbs higher from the statistical noise, serves as a flag of protest increasingly hard to ignore. It’s a civic duty to lie on marketing surveys.