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Americans view firefighters and doctors as having the most prestigious professions, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll.
When read a list of different occupations, 63% of respondents to the telephone poll said they feel firefighters have "very great" prestige, while 58% said doctors do. Other professions that were seen as having very great prestige included: nurses (55%), scientists (54%), teachers (52%) and military officers (51%).
The occupations seen by the fewest people as having very great prestige were: real-estate brokers (6%), stockbrokers (11%), business executives (11%), actors (12%), union leaders (12%) and journalists (12%).
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Why do you "lol"? The data you posted seems to be the correct answer.
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think of the type of ppl who take the time to go through a phone survey.
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people from every age group, people from every type of education bracket, people from all income brackets (even desperate housewives of millionaires get lonely and answer surveys), etc. If the results are imbalanced (too many men, not enough older people, etc), survey results are always weighted by age, gender and region to ensure that they are accurate representations of the genpop. Depending on sample size survey results are accurate within 2-3% 19 times out of 20.