Official guidance provided by the NHS suggests that Man-flu does exist, but only by men who are prone to complaining when it comes to being ill.
Now new research conducted by Andrews Sykes has located where and when men complain about Man-flu the most to assess the current state of this Modern epidemic in the UK.
Through social media monitoring, it was discovered that 18,504 social media posts were created about Man-flu during Winter 2016/17, equating to over a substantial 4,000 per month.
By using the world’s leading social listening tool looking specifically at Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, Andrews Sykes found that the largest proportion of complaints came from Northern Ireland, constituting 16% of the total data return (4525 posts/capita).
As for the toughest of the bunch, men in the North East and London complained the least, both representing 1% of the data return.
On a smaller scale, the city with the lowest number of complaints about Man-flu was Dumfries in South Western Scotland, with a miniscule 193 posts/capita. Whilst the men of Lisburn and Dover topped the list when it came to winging with 2635 and 1731 posts/capita respectively.
When it came to the peak times for men to moan about Man-flu, the optimum period for posts was mid-December, and more exactly the 14th which saw 266 posts nationwide.
Coincidentally, this period coincides with regular Flu season, which leads to questions as to whether Man-flu is one in the same strain. The above statistics demonstrate that plenty of men today consider themselves victim to the case of Man-flu, providing specific insight into exactly where and at when.
Our unusual study revealed that men in certain regions are less inclined to complain about Man-flu than others, but why is this? Are men from certain regions less resistant to the epidemic of Manflu, or is it merely in their nature to suffer in silence?
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