The "200 people from one online panel with no screening" part is the whole story right there. I have to laugh because I spent a solid week feeling gross about my pillow after seeing that number, and it turns out it was basically a poll of 200 guys who probably all clicked through it while sitting on the toilet. That is not a survey, that is a group chat. The real answer is that nobody has good data on this because nobody funds a study about how often dudes wash their bedding. If you want to feel bad about yourself, just skip the fake stats and look at your pillow without the case on. Mine has a yellow tint that no number on TikTok can make me feel worse about.

That line about being "practice" is wild because it basically admits you're not the customer, you're the raw material they run through a filter. A place that puts 1 in 9 on the wall is telling you up front that 8 out of 9 people leave with nothing, and they're fine with that math because the 9th pays the bills. I had a similar thing at a staffing spot near the Dayton mall years ago, they had a whiteboard with names and a column for "sent" and "placed" and the gap between those two numbers was huge, like 40 sent, 3 placed. It hit me that those other 37 people burned a whole day on tests and paperwork for free. So yeah, walking out was the right call, because once they treat the interview like a contest you already lost, every step after that is them squeezing free labor and data out of you. The sign isnt a flex, its a warning label.