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Saturday, January 17, 2004
fact of the day

what are the top three features do north americans see when they vote for a politician?

1. speech ability
(fair enough. good articulation, vocabulary, body languange, persuasion technique, but not necessarily the content of the speech.)

2. hair color
(you would expect something like the politician's proposed policies to fill this position. but no. a dark-haired politician is more likely to be voted than a blonde one, regardless of sex.)

3. height
(yes, height. apparently north americans associate a good politician as a charismatic one: attractive, persuasive, dark-haired and tall. most of americans think that all of their presidents are above 6 ft tall. the reality: just more than half of them are qualified. speaking of camouflage.)

and now the big question: what about the case of indonesia? please comment.


# | posted by emil @ 1/17/2004 12:33:00 p.m. |