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Hair today
Like a junkie who can’t quite get clean, we keep getting suckered by stupid surveys designed to get the attention of columns like ours. That’s why we were relieved to get a really important news release from The Training Camp this week: 47 per cent of males in its survey of IT experts have facial hair.
‘Even more striking was the clear link between pundits’ field of expertise and their beard pattern. For example, 46 per cent of commentators with a deep knowledge of application development were also proud owners of David Bellamy-style bushy pieces. Just over 45 per cent of CIOs and CEOs, on the other hand, were pictured with carefully trimmed moustaches. Bucking the trend were employees of Microsoft, of whom over 75 per cent were completely clean-shaven, independent of job title.’
Of course, if you have interesting facial hair, we’d like to see it. That is, assuming the words ‘interesting’ and ‘facial hair’ can ever be used together.
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