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Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the he-can-afford-more-hats dept.

walterbyrd writes "Americans admire Bill Gates more than the Pope, the Dalai Lama and even Glenn Beck. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist was named the fifth most admired man of 2010, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll."

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  1. Re:ADMIRED??? by chemicaldave · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm assuming most people voted for him because of his philanthropy.

  2. Re:ADMIRED??? by grub · · Score: 4, Informative


    Philanthropy and the fact that Gates didn't run an organization which hid and shuffled its pedophiles around the world.

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  3. Margin of Error? by celticryan · · Score: 5, Informative

    What a horrible poll.

    The sample size quoted was 1019. At 95% confidence level, the simple statistical error is about 3%. That puts basically everyone from 2-9 at the same amount of admiration...

  4. Re:Problem: by infurnus · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not as bad as people make it out to be, watch the video before making a judgement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppDWD3VwxVg Video Bill Gates/mosquitoes @ TED (unedited point segment) ~ 2-4-09