Boxers vs. Briefs? Guess The Correct Answer And Win!
You may recall a question on the Class Survey, “Boxers or Briefs?”
Well, we are going to have a little fun with the answer. Please GUESS the percentage of respondents who answered “briefs”. Those getting closest to the correct percentage will win a $30 Duluth Trading Company gift certificate –enough for either boxers or briefs.
The winner will be announced at the Class Dinner on Friday night at the reunion.** [You must be present to win!]
[insrt the form to capture the answer]
** Classmates on the Reunion Committee, ClassBook committee or Survey Committee are not permitted to guess, since they have access to the answers.
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For context, here is the discussion from the prior report re: the Survey on Yale1969.org:
Boxers v. Briefs
It was in April 1994 on a nationally televised MTV forum that an impertinent young woman asked the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, “The world is dying to know: boxers or briefs?”[1] (The answer: “Usually briefs.”)
We thought it would be fun to ask that same question in the class survey, but to add to the fun we are not disclosing here the actual percentage who report wearing the whitey-tighties versus the loose-trunks version.[2]
However, we can report on some actual statistical analyses of the underwear preference patterns of our class. There is a statistically significant correlation of underwear preference with the type of high school a classmate attended, with boxers more highly favored by preppies (those who attended private, residential schools). Public school guys favor briefs, and those who went to private day schools fall somewhere in between.
Varsity athletes and those who served on active duty in the military favor boxers more than others. In addition, boxers are significantly more favored by those of us who played on residential college athletic teams while at Yale.
Classmates who belonged to fraternities are significantly more likely to wear boxers, while those who were tapped into senior societies are more likely to be wearing briefs. None of the other attributes we measured, from party identification to pot smoking to current net worth to belonging to a music group seems to be correlated with underwear preference.
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Notes:
[1] And Clinton followed that with a hilarious “full disclosure” statement at the White House Corresondents’ Dinner that week, which can be seen at https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4535378/pres-clinton-boxers-v-briefs.
[2] At this writing, the plan is to disclose this sensitive statistic only at the 50th reunion itself. As the young lady said: the world is dying to know!