Results: Wash Behind Your Ears...Really!
Published on 07/18/2025
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1.
1.
Were you told by whomever took care of you when you were a child that you should wash behind your ears?
Yes
54%
1077 votes
Not recalling...
25%
497 votes
No
16%
329 votes
I was born without discernable ears.
5%
97 votes
2.
2.
When (supposing if) you were told to wash behind your ears when you were a child, did you?
Yes , always
33%
657 votes
More often than not, but not always
24%
487 votes
Under half time, but at least sometimes
10%
195 votes
No (at best I let whatever shampoo got back there suffice to clean those spaces)
17%
347 votes
My ears haven't become any more discernable since answering the previous question.
16%
314 votes
3.
3.
Do you currently, as an adult, continue to regularly wash behind your ears?
Yes, at least often I did as a minor.
56%
1129 votes
It goes in streaks./ I do so less often than I dd in my youth.
19%
376 votes
No (possibly because my ears are no more discernable than when I answered the previous two questions)
25%
495 votes
4.
4.
Have you recently (say, within the past week) rubbed one of your fingers behind one of our ears to find you had a buildup of what might have been excess skin, perhaps malodorous?
Yes
17%
330 votes
Unsure/If there was, I didn't notice.
23%
469 votes
No (possibly because of the circumstance regarding my ears mentioned in the previous question's last answer option)
60%
1201 votes
5.
5.
If the previous questions about a cliche piece of childhood hygiene advice has reminded you of any other directives you heard as a kid that you still heed, how about sharing it in a comment?
Yes, I'll do that.
12%
231 votes
It might be out of place elsewhere, but I may do that in a comment on another poll, but not now.
17%
342 votes
No, I either can't think of any other other things I may've been told t do as a child and/orr don't care t share any.
71%
1427 votes
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