A new survey has found people are more likely to trust hairdressers to tell them the truth than the police.

The Ipsos MORI poll asked people to rate how trustworthy certain professions are.

The top five most trusted were doctors, teachers, judges, scientists and hairdressers.

It was bad news for journalists, who are less trusted than builders, bankers and as equally unlikely to tell the truth as estate agents.

But you cannot always trust the statistics alone. Just look at these 10 REAL LIFE (sort of) examples of who buck the trust trend of their chosen vocation.

Doctors are the considered the most trustworthy, with the public willing to put their faith in the medical fraternity due to their life-saving work.

They seem to be winning the public over in their industrial dispute with walking PR disaster Jeremy Hunt, using the simple fact they stop people from dying as a persuasive argument against the Tory health minister's new 400 days a week NHS plan.

However, they were severely let down by (albeit not strictly real) Hannibal Lecter, who was once a psychiatrist.

Luckily his cannibalistic bloodlust did not have any noticeable impact on his work (except for a bit).

Yes, in many ways teachers are great, what with their selfless commitment to improving children's lives and educating our future leading lights. But does anyone talk about the more sinister side of the educational profession?

That's right, the evil hypnotising headmaster.

As shown in powerful children's documentary series the Demon Headmaster, some can be pure evil.

Using simple teaching techniques like discipline and supernatural eyes, his reign of terror is a stark lesson from history.

Judges are the backbone of the legal system. Without their highly-paid decisions, law and order and wig sales would completely collapse.

This is never more clear that with US TV's Judge Judy, who instead applies the brutal and condescending rule of law to landmark cases such as 'Who stole my parking space?' and "Finders v Keepers".

Einstein, Asimov, Curie, Darwin, Hawking... The list of incredible scientists who have improved our understanding of the world is long and illustrious.

But sometime science can go TOO FAR... Sure it seems like a good idea to create a grotesque living creature out of the body parts of cadavers, zapped to life with electricity.

But history shows us even the most seemingly benign experiments have a risk and Dr Frankenstein has let his profession down.

Anyone who has left the hairdressers with a hat on may be surprised about the vocation's place in the top five in terms of public trust.

But there is an element of responsibility the hairdresser must bear, with a sharp pair of potentially fatal scissors and the future fashion credibility of the customer placed in their hands.

Sweeney Todd did not take his responsibly seriously enough. Instead of giving them a snazzy new look he brutally murdered them in cold blood. Which is just not on.

Shockingly, trust in business is low. Possibly something to do with the rich-poor divide and the perceived corporate influence over government.

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has gone a small way to restoring some of the public's faith in the business community with his pledge to give away nearly all his wealth to worthy causes.

Also... he did this.

Journalism has had a tough few years. The phone-hacking scandal and a supposed deference towards powerful lobbies and political elites has eroded public confidence in news reporters to such a degree the industry finds itself on a par with estate agents in terms of trustworthiness.

But one man who has restored some sanity to proceedings, and a little faith into the field, didn't really start as a journalist at all. Stand-up comedian Jon Stewart started his current affairs show The Daily Show in 1999.

He left the show in 2015, having transformed into America's most influential reporters on politics, highlighting scandals and skewering the agendas of much of the country's partial news media.

The cliches of estate agents are too numerous to list but suffice to say it is not a job naturally identified with saintly honesty.

Perhaps there is only one person with the the moral fortitude to drag it up the rankings and win back the nation's trust.

Marge Simpson. The matriarch and glue that holds the Simpsons family together.

Her time as an estate agent was a pitched battle between good and evil and her steadfast refusal to compromise her beliefs to sell houses should be a beacon to the industry even though it ultimately cost her a job.

The credibility of government is in the gutter. The pronouncements of ministers are treated with suspicion and outright cynicism (*cough* Jeremy Hunt), and popularity ratings for the main UK leaders barely scrape above 40%.

But supreme leader of the SNP and Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has popularity ratings that even Kim Jon-Un couldn't fix. A recent poll found the First Minister was Scotland's most popular living person. As in more popular than every other Scottish person CURRENTLY ALIVE. More than Limmy?!

In many way, she has rejuvenated politics north of the border by softening the more volatile edges of her predecessor and, according to the SNP faithful, her natural next ascension will be into a ball of pure benevolent energy.

If ministers are the bottom of the barrel then, according to the survey, politicians generally are as welcome as the stagnant water that sits in it.

The term has become a byword for sleaze, lies and careerist disconnection so it is rare to find one with a genuine warmth and rapport with people.

Charles Kennedy had these qualities, and even more than that he was actually, genuinely funny.

Not in a braying PMQs script way but in a way you might enjoy to listen to without wanting to gnaw off your own ears.

His regular appearances on Have I Got News For You are a testament to his increasingly rare ability among politicians: seeming like a real person.