Have you eaten something off the floor because five seconds hadn't passed?
87% said Yes. A Rutgers lab tested this in 2016. Bad news for the five seconds.
The five-second rule is folklore, and science has looked into it. Bacteria don't wait politely, but most people still pick the cookie up off the kitchen floor and eat it anyway.
The numbers
In a similar question from Aston University study (reported by Food Safety News), 2014, 87% answered yes and 13% answered never. Source: Aston University study (reported by Food Safety News).
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More like this in Am I normal? The real numbers on twelve things people do when nobody's looking.
Cat Census
Answer it yourself and watch a crowd of cats split between yes and never.