The production and publication of polls of various kinds has been on the increase for a few years now, and they are subject to constant comments and debates. These polls have infiltrated many sectors: not only in the political arena of course and the economic and social sectors, but also in that of communication and advertising. These polls and their figures are presented as evidence of irrefutable proof by people who use them in debates and campaigns. Yet the Happydemics study, published last month, showed that the majority of people don’t trust polling institutes. Only 45% of French people state that they trust polling institutes, and 55% of French people don’t trust the figures provided by the institutes. These results raise questions about the actual importance of the polls which are frenetically presented to the French population, the majority of whom neither trust nor value them. Without necessarily getting rid of them, it may warrant reflection on the sheer number of them, since 56% of the French think there are too many of them.