On a whim, I recently ran a Twitter poll recently in which I posed the question ‘ are most people a bit thick?’. I had no idea what the result was going to be, but even though the poll produced a relatively tiny sample, it turned out that 96 per cent of those polled thought most people were indeed a little intellectual…
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