Real Estate Agents' ranking in trustworthiness among 20 professions

[88GT]

Mods: I put this here instead of Break Room since it has the potential to go south according to Break Room standards. Figured this was a safer place to let it play out as it might instead of constraining it to

Ethics. How Does Real Estate Rank?
A recent Gallup Poll on the trustworthiness of various professionals shows real estate agents in the middle of the occupations cited – 10th out of the top 20. Real estate professionals fared well below doctors and teachers but still above members of Congress and lawyers. Here is how the occupations rated when consumers were asked which professions had “high” or “very high” ethical standards.

1. Pharmacists
2. Medical doctors
3. High school teachers
4. Police officers
5. Clergy
6. Funeral directors
7. Accountants
8. Building contractors
9. Journalists
10. Real estate agent
11. Bankers
12. Lawyers
13. Business executives
14. Labor union leaders
15. Stockbrokers
16. Advertising executives
17. Telemarketers
18. Car salespeople
19. Lobbyists
20. Members of Congress

Discuss.

 

[hooky]

Can't believe contractors are #8.

 

[45calibre]

i cant believe cops are #4

 

[eldirector]

Got a link to the actual poll? I have a feeling this is a "forced ranking" of 20 named professions. Just because a job is in the top 10, doesn't mean they are trusted. Just that they outranked the vile creatures below them.

 

[NYFelon]

Can't believe Lawyers are not just above congressmen. Also can't believe cops are in the top 10.

 

[eldirector]

Can't believe Lawyers are not just above congressmen. Also can't believe cops are in the top 10.

Like I said, if it is forced ranking, you could have a list like this:

Rank your preference in foods:
1) Poop
2) Feces
3) A big stinking pile of ****
4) You MIL's cooking

Even is something is #1, you STILL don't want to eat it!

 

[rambone]

Can't believe any of it.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I would put teachers, cops, and contractors much lower on the list.

 

[hooky]

Can't believe Lawyers are not just above congressmen.

The majority of lawyers aren't congressmen, but the inverse is true. I say that taken together they should be around 54 out of 20.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I love how the bottom 10 basically reads like a who's-who of scumbags.

 

[ocsdor]

That looks like my bottom 20 list, though I'd replace lawyer with car mechanic.

 

[jayhawk]

Got a link to the actual poll? I have a feeling this is a "forced ranking" of 20 named professions. Just because a job is in the top 10, doesn't mean they are trusted. Just that they outranked the vile creatures below them.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the case.

 

[88GT]

Got a link to the actual poll? I have a feeling this is a "forced ranking" of 20 named professions. Just because a job is in the top 10, doesn't mean they are trusted. Just that they outranked the vile creatures below them.

If you meant that people were asked to rank each of the 20 professions in order of trustiworthiness relative to each other, you'd be incorrect.

In fact, the verbiage in the OP said as much:

Here is how the occupations rated when consumers were asked which professions had “high” or “very high” ethical standards.

Each respondent ranked each profession independently on a scale. Gallup merely counted the total number of "high" or "very high" responses, and then ordered the professions accordingly. Well, that's the simplified version. They use a percentage, which indicates a couple of other details about the poll internals, but nothing that changed raw data.


I had to google since the original wasn't supplied to me. I am not confident this is the exact one, but I think it is. Honesty/Ethics in Professions

In finding the original, it seems the info I was given is incorrect. Nurses aren't even on the list I was given, [STRIKE]and bankers are removed as well.[/STRIKE] Correction, the list supplied to me transposed Realtors and bankers. This was supplied in a weekly email from the local Realtor board. (You can be sure I will be contacting them for their lack of trustworthiness in conveying information. ) However, the relative positions of the remaining professions seem to have stayed where they were, except bankers and real estate agents, of course.

 

[Kedric]

I can't believe that doctors, cops, or teachers made the top 50, much less the top 5.... I think the poll smells. I bet it is a forced choice poll, like was suggested above.

Also, yeah... the entire bottom 10 are highly suspect.

 

[churchmouse]

#9-#12-#14 are way to high up the list in my most humble opinion.
#20 is spot on

 

[88GT]

I can't believe that doctors, cops, or teachers made the top 50, much less the top 5.... I think the poll smells. I bet it is a forced choice poll, like was suggested above.

Also, yeah... the entire bottom 10 are highly suspect.

You didn't read the post above yours or the link, did you?

 

[88GT]

Does this make it easier for you guys to understand?

I'd have to rate INGO's collective critical thinking skills n the low/very low category if this thread is any indication.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Rank your preference in foods:
1) Poop
2) Feces
3) A big stinking pile of ****
4) You MIL's cooking

This list seems repetitious to me...

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

In my experience...the labor union leaders, business executives, and lawyers should be tied for last place. The high school teacher ranking seems a little high too.

 

[handgun]

what how are doctors less trusted than nurses?
that makes no sense..