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Question #4·15 August 2026·revealed

Do you wear shoes inside your home?

774 people in 24 countries answered on 15 August 2026. 80% said No.

Yes20%
No80%
774
votes worldwide
24
countries
3.9s
median gut time
77%
predicted the majority
20.8
avg split-guess miss, points

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By country

YesNo
🇺🇸 USA 302
2773
🇨🇦 Canada 64
92
🇬🇧 UK 60
87
🇦🇺 Australia 31
2971
🇧🇷 Brazil 26
1981
Everywhere else 225
1783

By age

YesNo
18 to 24 61
89
25 to 34 157
1981
35 to 44 94
2179
45 to 54 26
3962
Everywhere else 8
88

By profession

YesNo
Software & IT 100
86
Student 31
90
Engineering 28
89
Everywhere else 169
2575
Biggest gap: 45 to 54 put the winning answer at 61.5%, against 80% worldwide.
Most contrarian country: 🇳🇿 New Zealand. Only 60% sided with the global majority.

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In a wisehumans poll of 774 voters across 24 countries (15 August 2026), 80% chose "No". Source: wisehumans.org/q/do-you-wear-shoes-inside-your-home

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<p>Source: <a href="https://wisehumans.org/q/do-you-wear-shoes-inside-your-home">wisehumans.org</a>, 15 August 2026. CC BY 4.0.</p>

Method

Self-selected online poll, no accounts: one vote per browser per day, capped per network address to limit repeat voting. Country derived at the network edge; age and profession self-reported from fixed lists. Buckets under 25 votes fold into "Everywhere else"; buckets under 5 are never published. Not weighted, not representative of any population.

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