Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope

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."

Comments

Duh

[chemicaldave]

There are only 68 million Catholics in the US according to wikipedia. How many Windows users are there?

Re:Problem:

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Hey, never underestimate the power of "Has never covered up a massive multinational paedophilia ring" on your CV...

Margin of Error?

[celticryan]

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...

Re:He only donated enormous amounts of money...

[Mike Mentalist]

Lots of drug lords donate enormous amounts of money to their cities neighborhoods. Go look in Columbia. It is one of the reasons they are adored in their own hometowns. Doesn't change the fact that they are drug lords and will kill people to make a profit.

So, perhaps we should look at the TOTALITY of Bill Gates career, rather than just what he did with the money after he got more than he could ever spend.

Yeah, then everyone can see just how stupid it is to compare him with a drug lord.