Calvin’s Dad seems to go up and down in the polls. Here is what the household 6-year-olds thought of him 7 years earlier:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (March 18, 1986)Click here: Peanuts (October 10, 1964)Click here: Wizard of Id (July 31, 2004)
Calvin probably makes it up to try to change his dad’s mind on certain things. It’s not working, clearly. The thing is: Calvin never does a poll for his mom. She would probably refute them, that’s why.
Cigarette companies used to pass out sample packets (5) at leading colleges. An hour later, a pollster would ask students what brand they were smoking.Next month, ads in leading magazines:At a recent poll at [EggHead U], 95% of smokers were smoking [CHOKES] – the choice of professionals!
“Where do you pollsters find these respondents?”“Oh, different parts of me, I suppose; I don’t really know.”“Not to worry; I don’t give much credence to those things anyway.”
ratlum over 11 years ago
I am like Dad I do not put too much faith in polls.
rentier over 11 years ago
Houshold six-year-olds! I love that!
margueritem over 11 years ago
Yes, where do you find your representatives of six-year-olds?
margueritem over 11 years ago
Yes, where do you find your representatives of six-year-olds?
watmiwori over 11 years ago
In the case of Calvin’s poll, the ‘vast majority’ = 100% of housrhold six year olds polled!
ziphobia over 11 years ago
I think statistically speaking all statistics in the world is fraud.
arye uygur over 11 years ago
Nice of Dad to humor Calvin by going along with him.
Phapada over 11 years ago
QuietStorm27 over 11 years ago
A better question would be how does a six year old know what a poll is?
moronbis over 11 years ago
Wonder whether Hobbes gets to vote or not?
Hobbes Premium Member over 11 years ago
Calvin’s Dad seems to go up and down in the polls. Here is what the household 6-year-olds thought of him 7 years earlier:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (March 18, 1986)Click here: Peanuts (October 10, 1964)Click here: Wizard of Id (July 31, 2004)
davesoup1972 over 11 years ago
Hmm and I thought he was an automatic TELLer machine… he tells Calvin to wash the dishes, to clean his room, to do his homework, to go to bed….
GROG Premium Member over 11 years ago
If you want money, Calvin go get yourself a paper route. Dad is not a bank machine.
Aaron Saltzer over 11 years ago
Calvin probably makes it up to try to change his dad’s mind on certain things. It’s not working, clearly. The thing is: Calvin never does a poll for his mom. She would probably refute them, that’s why.
dflak over 11 years ago
Sometimes you can get the answer you want by how you ask the questions or even how you order the questions.
Or you can do like the news media. Keep asking the same question until you get the answer you want.
Puddleglum2 over 11 years ago
I wouldn’t touch that question with a ten-feet pollster!
JP Steve Premium Member over 11 years ago
I totally believe in polls. Like in our last provincial election where the predicted landslide victory went to the other party!
ChessPirate over 11 years ago
And an astounding 100% of Household Fathers find the motivations of pollsters of Household Six-Year-Olds highly suspect.
Number Three over 11 years ago
I love Dad’s bored look in the 3rd panel.
LOL xxx
tuslog64 over 11 years ago
Cigarette companies used to pass out sample packets (5) at leading colleges. An hour later, a pollster would ask students what brand they were smoking.Next month, ads in leading magazines:At a recent poll at [EggHead U], 95% of smokers were smoking [CHOKES] – the choice of professionals!
tuslog64 over 11 years ago
Ads were common when the first debates on health issues were being raised:70% of doctors prefer Camels.(Did that imply that only 30% preferred women?)
Hobbes Premium Member over 11 years ago
Today’s poll question: How many of you read Calvin and Hobbes?
Hobbes Premium Member over 11 years ago
I see that some of yesterday’s political attacks have been deleted by GoComics.
rickray777 over 11 years ago
“Where do you pollsters find these respondents?”“Oh, different parts of me, I suppose; I don’t really know.”“Not to worry; I don’t give much credence to those things anyway.”
pbarnrob over 11 years ago
If you ever get the chance, snap up a copy of How To Lie With Statistics, 1954, PB 1993. An eye-opener!
watmiwori over 11 years ago
Lies, damned lies, and statistics….
lizilu over 11 years ago
Glad to see Calvin’s dad is not a politician.