On a scale from 1 to 10, what’s the worst pain you’ve ever experienced in your life? Like when you broke a bone, or had a kidney stone, or had a KID.
Someone polled 5,000 Americans, and over half of us think we’ve at least experienced an “8” before.
17% said they’ve NEVER dealt with “severe” pain. (Lucky them.) The poll defined “severe” as a 6 out of 10 or higher. Most of that painless crowd was young people.
12% said a “6” is the worst they’ve ever felt, 8% said “7”, and 25% said an “8.” They defined an “8” as “VERY severe.”
Another 10% said a “9”, and 24% said a “10”. So 59% said “8” or higher. That includes 55% of men and 63% of women. (You’d think that divide would be a little bigger with the whole LABOR thing factored in.)
Almost everyone claimed to have at least an “average” pain tolerance. 48% said “high” or “very high.” Just 12% of us think we have a low tolerance for pain.
(YouGov)
