60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll: March Edition

• Do you know what a hedge fund is?

Seventy percent of Americans said they did not know what a hedge fund is. Thirty percent said they did, but when asked to define the term many fell short of knowing. They shouldn't feel bad, the financial industry is notorious for making things more complicated than they need to be. In this case, they are funds that cater to the one percent and well-heeled institutions like pension funds and university endowments that understand that with great returns come great risk. Think of it as a high stakes poker game where if you have to ask how much a seat at the table costs, you probably can't afford it.

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[walt9800]

What an insane and irrelevant waste of time! What kind of opinion poll masquerades as a pop test to see if you can recall known facts? (See questions about "who was not a president" and "common surnames") And what about nonsensical questions, such as which war shouldn't have been fought, and one of the responses being "the war on drugs," which obviously is not a war in the sense that the other three choices are. Do people really think this kind of tripe is relevant to anything??

[Forty-Four]

Yes, NONE of those tempt me. I saw a quote on twitter

"My parents always told me I couldn't be a pirate when I grow up. My music and movie collection says otherwise."