TSM makes the top 10 most admired list

[_Wisdom Seeker]

A LDS prophet has finally made it into the top 10 USA Today/Gallup poll for most admired men in the world. I do not know him very well, except the things I have read in the Ensign and what I have seen at General Conference. I don't read the church-news, but I am assuming that in that publication it demonstrates him either personally or as the head of the organization helping the poor and needy of the world. If this is not the case, what admirable qualities have put him, the first LDS prophet on this long established poll?

[_The Dude]

It is his wonderful specialness, of course, that has drawn him out of the utter obscurity of the backwater Mormon religion and earned him a spot as the 10th most admired person in the poll.

[_Lucretia MacEvil]

A LDS prophet has finally made it into the top 10 USA Today/Gallup poll for most admired men in the world. I do not know him very well, except the things I have read in the Ensign and what I have seen at General Conference. I don't read the church-news, but I am assuming that in that publication it demonstrates him either personally or as the head of the organization helping the poor and needy of the world. If this is not the case, what admirable qualities have put him, the first LDS prophet on this long established poll?

How were the top 10 selected exactly? It's a little hard to imagine that in a properly conducted random poll the name of TSM would have come up one in a hundred times, much less one in ten. Was there voting system by any chance? I kind of remember when GBH was in the running for Time Person of the Year and TBMs were sending out mass e-mails asking people to vote for him. Maybe this has gone on here too?

[_angsty]

How were the top 10 selected exactly? It's a little hard to imagine that in a properly conducted random poll the name of TSM would have come up one in a hundred times, much less one in ten. Was there voting system by any chance? I kind of remember when GBH was in the running for Time Person of the Year and TBMs were sending out mass e-mails asking people to vote for him. Maybe this has gone on here too?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/151790/Barac ... -List.aspx

I'd like to see the spread of religious affiliation within the sample. The sample size is 1,019, so that means in order to get a 1% mention rate, Just over ten people would have to know who he was-- that's not too hard to believe. It's not as exciting as the headline suggests either, especially since it's not hard to believe that out of 1,019 random calls, 11 might be Mormon households.

Also, it's interesting that "none/no opinion" (32%) and "other" (25%) were the most popular responses overall. People also mentioned friends and relatives (at 9%).

[_zeezrom]

Billy Graham: 54 appearances on the Gallup Poll most admired top 10.

[_Infymus]

Try not to squint.

http://i.imgur.com/KDnCU.jpg

[_3sheets2thewind]

Calls were made to al US States, only 11 people need mention monson, which is very likely if one considers that at 20 calls were made to Utah residents. I do like monson, its just that the numbers for.him were not all that difficult to get

[_Fence Sitter]

President Monson's greatest contribution to the LDS Church will be to outlive Packer.

[_moksha]

President Monson should be congratulated for living a life worthy of praise.

[_Equality]

I wonder where Kim Jong Il would rank on the list if they took the survey in North Korea. What has Monson done that is admirable to believers (other than the aforementioned sparing the church and the world of the spectacle of a Packer Presidency)? I really wonder what Mormons think is so admirable about the man. Was it that he gave his toy train to his friend down the street when he was ten years old? Or that he has repeatedly tooted his own horn about it for the last 75 years.