Well I didn't, so it must have been one of you three

There's an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry's stage routine involves him asking why is it that some men have pictures of their wife and children on their desk, is it because if they didn't they would forget they had a family waiting at home and would head for the nearest bar or brothel rather than going home. Well this week a survey claimed that one in four working men would be visiting a brothel or massage parlour as they headed home from the office for Christmas.

Now I have to ask where exactly was this survey carried out and what was the question. Imagine the scene, you leave the office, head for the tube/metro station, pick up the evening paper and are accosted by somebody with a clip board and photo i.d. "Excuse me Sir, we're conducting a survey on what men do once they leave work, on a scale of one for never through to five for always, which of the following are you most likely to do after work? a) buy an evening paper, (b) arrange to meet a colleague down the pub, (c) finish the Christmas shopping (d) go straight home or (e) visit the local brothel for a fifteen minute quickie with a young Albanian woman who is the victim of a ruthless sex trafficking gang?

I'd love to know what variance survey response compilers allow in situations like this. I mean we all know that if you ask a teenager if they've had an alcoholic drink and they are with their mates they'll say yes. so are us men just as likely to lie or is there more shame in going straight home after work rather than shagging a prostitute.