Perhaps that's because it is a rather nonsensical question. I believe you would get better results if you gave people more of a context. How do you define philosophy? And "practical" in what context? Something is practical if it works - but works to do what?

To me, philosophy is the exploration of meaning. Nothing means anything, save the meaning we give it. We create and define our world by assigning meanings.

For example, two people are caught unexpectedly in the rain and they are both soaked. For one person, it is hellish - his day is ruined. For the other, it is heavenly - he dances in the rain and laughs about being soaked! He never had a better day.

It is the same water, but two people have very different experiences because of the different meaning they assigned to the unexpected rain. You might say they had different philosophies on the subject.

It is all a matter of perspective, and philosophy is the exploration of perspective. Thus nothing is more practical than philosophy - it is all about how we create our lives.

"What is the meaning of life?" is THE philosophical question. From meaning comes perspective, from perspective comes experience, or practical "reality".