#for example i've never seen a chinese home cook measure out ingredients in grams or litres

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Looking through these numbers is so fascinating.

Like, who are these 30% of Americans who want to keep the gaps down the sides of toilet stall doors!? (Not even including the unsure!) When I first read this I assumed it meant the gaps above and below the doors, which I could imagine wanting to keep if you think it improves ventilation, but down the sides? Do people enjoy being watched while they poop?

Also what's with the 15% who don't want sales tax included and the 37% who don't want the government to figure out your income taxes for you? Do these people miss having schoolwork and wish they could spend their free time plugging numbers into formulas and following convoluted instructions?

(Though for the government-calculating-your-taxes one, it seems bundled with the government automatically deducting them from your income. I wonder if they posed the question as the government calculating your taxes and sending you a bill instead, more people would have wanted it.)

Also who tf doesn't want paid vacation?! I mean, I imagine business owners who employ full-time employees might not, but business owners only account for 9% of Americans. WHO are these other 14% of Americans who for some reason hate having paid vacation days, wtf?

And who likes having prescription drug ads on TV? Like we're not even talking unsure or neutral, 24% of Americans actively want to have prescription drug ads?'

I don't drive enough to have an opinion on roundabouts, though I'd probably find them challenging. (They involve merges and lane changes, which I find quite challenging.) I'd probably prefer not to have more of those, too.

Also, I probably actually prefer not to use metric. I used metric a lot when I lived in the UK for a year, and measuring out ingredients on a scale takes much longer than using measuring cups, and also when you want to, say, do 1.5x recipe, a US recipe will usually be like "2 cups flour" and then you put 3 cups flour, but a UK recipe will be like "275 grams flour" and then you have to do 275*1.5 is approximately 410, which is much less natural and harder to do in your head, I'm honestly not sure how non-Americans do this.

(But maybe they have extra energy to do arithmetic since their taxes are all included/computed for them??)

deep insights into the american psyche