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I hope and pray that I never have to hear that awkward, sensationalist statistic tripping off the tongue of an enraged social campaigner again, but there’s no point, because when a figure is so absurdly exaggerated and improbable as this, it reverberates through the sphere of shoddy journalism for years. Yep, even more years than it has already.For anybody who doesn’t know, that statistic, which has done the headline rounds about 50,000 times (approx), came from a survey in which girls between the age of 15-19 were actually asked whether they’d rather be Abi Titmuss, Germaine Greer, or Anita Roddick.I mean TBF, I might have said the same thing. They also refrained from mentioning in their results that Abi Titmuss was and still is a qualified nurse and was appearing on Celebrity Love Island at the time, thus totally discounting any other kind of potential motive tweens might have for choosing her. Plus they skipped the bit where in the actual survey (apparently conducted by a "mobile entertainment company") only 7 percent of girls said they aspired to be like Jordan.
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