Young men are now spending more on looking good than women, according to a UK survey.
From across the UK, 3000 18- to 35-year-olds were questioned about their health, fitness and beauty regimes, revealing a narrowing in the gender divide....

Men out-spend women on beauty products

Where have all the real men gone? all this metrosexual nonsense is killing the british male

Originally Posted by Yeti

If they are counting Health and fitness in these figures then that’s possible, Gym memberships and equipment etc... As for "beauty products" I find that rather unlikely unless there are a lot more fags in this country than previously thought.
They joy of statistics is that you can make them show pretty much anything you like depending on how you interperate them.

Precisely! I remember going to a lecture on polls and statistical analysis several years ago, and although many of the details haven't stayed with me, I do recall the comment that the vast majority of polls conducted give either misleading or biased results depending on whether the precise wording of the questions was not completely neutral or was somehow loaded - sometimes on purpose to give skewed results to try to gain an advantage in some commercial, economic or political arena, other times inadvertently by people inexperienced at setting such questions. Far too many polls can also be misleading because either not enough people have completed them or the audience addressed by the poll hasn't been spread right across the spectrum of social and economic indicators, like those in many special interest magazines. A wonderful example of the latter two are those poll results you often see on TV adverts for women's cosmetics - "72% of 103 people agreed" - wow, that must make it the most wonderful product ever!

I do very much suspect, as you point out, that this particular poll fits into one or other of the misleading results categories!