We asked. You told. Here are the results of our Reader Poll.
| What are you doing this Valentine’s Day? | ||
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| Attending yet another production of the Vagina Monologues |  r 5% |
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| Having dinner with significant other |  27% |
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| Having dinner with single friends |  5% |
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| Resenting significant other for not paying enough attention to Valentine’s Day, even though you told |  5% |
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| Prepping for class. This is law school, after all. Duh. |  19% |
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| Playing the Iseley Brothers on continuous loop |  0% |
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| Loving the Haagen-Dasz |  6% |
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| When is it? |  29% |
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| Baking cupcakes for my kid’s school party |  5% |
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What conclusions can we draw, if any? (C’mon, it’s just for fun. We know it is not a statistically meaningful sample, etc.)
If 29% of our respondents don’t know (or care) when Valentine’s Day is, perhaps women are not the emotionally-attached, chocolate-and-diamond-seeking creatures that the media would make us out to be around February 14. 27% of us are out for dinner with a significant other, but at the same time (or after dinner or before), 19% are getting ready for school tomorrow. We go to community-oriented events in proportionately small numbers (5% attending yet another production of the Vagina Monologues), but we’re the ones making the events happen, too (5% baking cupcakes for the school party).
-Bridget Crawford
