Only telemarketers are ranked lower than members of Congress for honesty and ethical standards by Americans – a list topped by nurses and medical doctors, according to a poll released Tuesday.
A paltry 2% say the ethical standards of their elected representatives are “very high” and only 7% say they are “high,” according to a Gallup Poll.
It also found that 62% say their lawmakers have honesty and ethical problems – with 37% saying their standards are “low” and 25% saying they are “very low.”
Twenty-eight percent rate them as average.
At the bottom, just 6% of Americans rate telemarketers as having either “high” or “very high” ethical standards – while 59% say they are “low” or “very low.”
Thirty-three percent rate them as average.
Car salespeople who score a 10% ranking for “high” or “very high” ethical standards come in a spot above members of Congress.
And 44% give them a “low” or “very low” rating.
The medical field has the highest rankings among Americans of the 17 professions rated in the poll.
Nearly 8 out of ten US adults say nurses, who have been at the top of the annual list since they were added to the rankings in 1999 except for one year, have “very high” (29%) or “high” (50%) standards for honesty and ethics.
Firefighters got a record-high 90% rating in 2001 following the 9/11 terror attacks.
Nurses got their highest rating – 89% – in 2020 during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Only 3% say their standards are “low” in this survey.
Next are medical doctors with 62% high rating, followed by pharmacists at 58% and high school teachers with 53%.
Police officers land in fifth place with a 50% rating.
Journalists (23%) finish just above advertising executives (15%).
The survey polled 1,020 adults between Nov. 9 and Dec. 22. It has a plus/minus 4 percentage point margin of error.
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