Electronics Weekly
Trust in engineers is equal across genders, with 1% difference between men and women – 16.5% of engineers and technicians identify as women, added the IET. Engineers also scored 89% in 2020.
Numbers are from the Ipsos Veracity Index, with which the IET worked.
Teachers and museum curators were also right up there, while politicians (12%), advertising executives (14%), government ministers (16%), estate agents (28%) and journalists (29%) languished at the bottom
– Electronics Weekly would like to know where that leaves us earnest (we claim) souls who write about engineering for a living….
This year’s Ipsos Veracity Index survey was carried out by telephone on two waves of British adults aged 16+: 1,005 people between 19 and 26 October 2022, then 1,004 people between 26 October and 1 November.
“Data are weighted to match the profile of the population. All polls are subject to a wide range of potential sources of error,” said the IET.
Survey details can be found here
