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How decisive were these results, combined?
Seven questions, and only one of them actually about basketball.
TL;DR: Subway beat Pickup Truck so badly (41–12, 77%) that it barely edged out Smoked Brisket’s equally dominant win over Hot Pastrami for “least controversial opinion of the week.” The Knicks-vs-Spurs matchup that actually gave this poll its name wasn’t even the closest race — that honor goes to Breakfast, which landed 28–27, about as close to a coin flip as it gets.
| question | N | Leader (votes) | Trailer (votes) | Leader share | Margin (votes) | Margin (points) | p vs 50/50 | Leader 95% CI | Votes to flip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 55 | Bagel Sandwich (28) | Breakfast Taco (27) | 50.9% | 1 | 1.8% | 1.00e+00 | [0.37, 0.65] | 1 |
| Catchphrase | 58 | “I’m walkin’ here” (30) | “Bless your heart” (28) | 51.7% | 2 | 3.4% | 8.96e-01 | [0.38, 0.65] | 2 |
| Grocery | 48 | Bodega (30) | HEB (18) | 62.5% | 12 | 25.0% | 1.11e-01 | [0.47, 0.76] | 7 |
| Meats | 47 | Smoked Brisket (37) | Hot Pastrami (10) | 78.7% | 27 | 57.4% | 9.85e-05 | [0.64, 0.89] | 14 |
| Seasons | 55 | Four Seasons (38) | Mild Winter (17) | 69.1% | 21 | 38.2% | 6.46e-03 | [0.55, 0.81] | 11 |
| Team | 53 | Knicks (36) | Spurs (17) | 67.9% | 19 | 35.8% | 1.27e-02 | [0.54, 0.80] | 10 |
| Transport | 53 | Subway (41) | Pickup Truck (12) | 77.4% | 29 | 54.7% | 8.17e-05 | [0.64, 0.88] | 15 |
Does HQ agree with RTP?
| question | Leader (overall) | HQ share | RTP share | Gap (pts) | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | Bagel Sandwich | 44% (14/32) | 61% (14/23) | 17% | 0.327 |
| Catchphrase | “I’m walkin’ here” | 48% (15/31) | 56% (15/27) | 7% | 0.778 |
| Grocery | Bodega | 63% (17/27) | 62% (13/21) | 1% | 1.000 |
| Meats | Smoked Brisket | 85% (22/26) | 71% (15/21) | 13% | 0.459 |
| Seasons | Four Seasons | 69% (22/32) | 70% (16/23) | 1% | 1.000 |
| Team | Knicks | 74% (23/31) | 59% (13/22) | 15% | 0.389 |
| Transport | Subway | 83% (25/30) | 70% (16/23) | 14% | 0.392 |
The Alignment Index keeps climbing back toward Earth Day levels — 0.74 this week (cumulative: 0.84) — which makes it a little surprising that Breakfast produced this week’s widest office gap, 17%. The topline number recovering doesn’t mean individual questions stop splitting; look closely and this one’s a repeat of Earth Day’s Volunteering trick: the combined total for Breakfast looked almost exactly tied (28–27), but that’s because the offices actually disagree: HQ’s real preference was Breakfast Taco, while RTP’s was Bagel Sandwich.
It happened twice this week, actually — Catchphrase told the same story (HQ leaned “Bless your heart”, RTP leaned “I’m walkin’ here”, and the combined total again looked like a near-tie). That brings the running count to 4 questions since RTP joined where the topline “winner” only held up because two offices leaning in opposite directions happened to cancel each other out.