Superpowers for One, Superpowers for All!

July 28, 2011, by rebecca@top7.com
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Priorities are something that for most people change through the years. An eight year old boy can’t think past his next GI Joe or Transformers figure, while an eighteen year old boy has a decidedly different idea on his one track mind. An eighty-year old, if he can remember his priorities, probably has more practical things on the mind.

As it turns out, a lot of hypothetical questions involving priorities reflect that skew from age. When we asked people what superpowers they wish they would receive, 775 people responded. This was the general top seven results for the whole topic and all voters::

1 Invisibility
2 Flying
3 Mind Reading
4 teleportation
5 time travel
6 immortality
7 instant healing

However, interestingly enough, immortality in particular was a much higher priority for the younger voters! If you were under 15 voting on this topic, you helped propel this superpower to the #3 slot for your age group. On the other hand, if you were over 35 voting on this topic, you cared much less for forever-living and the item dropped to #7. Could this mean that the older you get the less you like life?
Or, perhaps its something else. For the young crowd, time travel was only their #6, but the over #35 set ranked it their top choice! So maybe this could mean that the older crowd doesn’t want to live infinitely as old folks, but rather prefers to re-live their glory days.
Perhaps their years sitting in traffic also influence why they care so much more about teleportation than the youngsters, or their years of backaches leading them to value instant healing a bit more too. But topics like this really go to show you what a difference age makes in priorities!

Under 15
1 Invisibility (same from the general list)
2 Flying Ability (same)
3 Immortality (up from #6)
4 Mind Reading (down from #3)
5 Teleportation (down from #4)
6 Time Travel (down from #5)
7 Instant Healing (same)

Over 35
1 Time Travel (up from #5)
2 Teleportation (up from #4)
3 Mind Reading (same)
4 Invisibility (down from #1)
5 Flying ability (down from #2)
6 Instant Healing (up from #7)
7 Immortality (down from #6)

Click here to vote: http://top7.com/top/408/Superpowers-I-Wish-I-Had/rank#rank
Click here to check out results: http://top7.com/top/408/Superpowers-I-Wish-I-Had
Click here to vote on who you admire most: http://top7.com/top/309/People-I-Admire/rank#rank


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God, Jesus and Lady Gaga

July 11, 2011, by rebecca@top7.com
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God, Jesus and Lady Gaga are sitting around your dinner table. No, this isn’t the beginning of a dirty joke, this is the top candidates of who people would like to invite to dinner.**

In the most extensive poll of its kind, people were presented with the topic People to Invite to a Dinner Party. They chose from candidates real and fictional, biblical and historical, scientific and entertainment-related. And not only did they have all these diverse candidates to choose from, but they also had the ability to invite more than one of their favorite people, in the order of just how much they would like to wine and dine them. You can learn a lot about a person, or a community, that way it seems.

Rounding out the top 10, in order, are
1 God
2 Jesus
3 Lady Gaga
4 Barack Obama
5 Megan Fox
6 Michael Jackson
7 David Beckham
8 Albert Einstein
9 Ellen DeGeneres
10 Elvis Presley

It seems that overall, people would have a very well-rounded dinner conversation. Religion is represented by God and Jesus, while science is represented by Einstein. Politics stands in with Obama, while sheer hotness comes from Megan Fox and David Beckham. Becks also provides athletic entertainment, while the laughs come from Ellen DeGeneres. The musical entertainment around the table will come from three different royals: both kings (Elvis, the King and MJ, the King of Pop) and the Lady of Gaga.

Lady Gaga sings to Judas
Seating Lady Gaga with God and Jesus could pose some thorny issues since she just crafted a love song to Judas, but we’re all adults, and I think they can work it out. Personally, I would seat Tupac with Confucius, Isaac Newton next to Snooki, and myself next to Detective Elliot Stabler. But the community has spoken. And they have said “God, Jesus, and Lady Gaga.” The Holy Trinity for the 21st Century.

If you’d like to see the full results, click here.
If you’d like to put in your two cents, click here.
If the people you admire don’t consist of the current favorites “Grandparent, Britney Spears, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, then click here to rank that too.

**Okay: it’s also the beginning of a dirty joke. But you have to sign up for our premium service to hear it (costs $100 for entry.)

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