It seems most people in Vancouver likely have two go-to options when they want to cool down in the summer heat.
They either find air conditioning or they set up a bunch of fans and get a nice breeze going.
The two options topped V.I.A.'s poll on how to beat the heat on these hot summer days, each with about a third of the local vote, though air conditioning had the edge.
There was a real split between the top two answers and the other three, which all came in with around 10 or 11 per cent. Even though Vancouver has a fair numbers of places to take a dip, going for a swim (indoor or outdoors) only brought in 10 per cent of the vote.
It tied with going for a cold shower, and lost out (albeit by a slim margin) to a cold beverage.
However, the three options that involved liquids lost handily to the options that involved air.
Vancouver Is Awesome polled 1511 readers and asked the question: How do you beat the heat?
The poll ran from 7/7/2024 to 7/24/2024. Of the 1511 votes, we can determine that 600 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 2.52%, 19 times out of 20.
Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
