Whether or not the EPA's own surveys can be trusted, the move by Republicans to denounce water regulation and pitch it as the enemy of the foundational American ideal of private property might not be a slam-dunk for the American right – even among their core supporters.
Harrison on Tuesday claimed Whitbread's 40,000 staff were among the most satisfied on the high street and in the hotel industry, with recent workforce surveys suggesting "employee engagement" was at record levels.
This is borne out by other studies and surveys which show that prolonged poor posture can have consequences.
Plans were announced to replace its 150 researchers, statisticians and analysts with "robopolling" and online surveys.
If technology has undermined the established ways in which political surveys can reach a representative mix of the citizenry, it should in time provide a sufficiently ingenious pollster with new ways to do just that.
Polls are certainly not the only surveys on which politicians and the media place heavy reliance.
He pointed me to a scientific paper published in 2011 in the journal Surveys in Geophysics showing that in fact, tide gauges record that sea level has been rising at about 2.8mm per year since the early 90s, not the 1mm claimed by Carter and Harris.
"Come the zombie apocalypse, we'll be OK," declares Siobhan McSweeney as she surveys a pile of toilet rolls big enough to supply a small village.
The final opinion polls – released on Friday ahead of a four-day moratorium on publishing surveys of voter intentions – put the centre-left Zionist Union, headed by opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog and former peace negotiator Tzipi Livni, ahead with 25 to 26 seats, and Netanyahu's Likud taking 20 to 22 in the 120-seat Knesset.
At this rate, Barclays risks being deeper into the untrusted category in those all-important surveys.
The chief executive has set the bank a target to be more trusted than not in surveys by 2018.
