世論 What Japan Thinks

As part of DIMSDRIVE Research’s 92nd Ranking Survey, towards the end of August they asked members of their internet monitor group which habits they want to break, but just can’t manage to. They got 5,595 responses, with 2,874, or 51.4% of the sample male.

This is a slightly higher male to female ratio than usual for DIMSDRIVE, so perhaps that suggests men have more bad habits?

I’d love to see a survey on what habits foreigners wish Japanese would quit! I’d put slurping noodles and sniffing rather than blowing one’s nose at the top of the list.

Q: Please tell me what habit you’re always thinking about wanting to quit, but just can’t manage it. (Sample size=5,595, free answer)

Rank	Habit	Votes
1	Biting nails	308
2	Tobacco	251
3	Snacking	203
4	Touching or picking nose	160
5	Touching hair	152
6	Jiggling leg, tapping foot (貧乏ゆすり, bimbou yusuri)	133
7	Cracking knuckles, neck, etc	90
8	Drinking	75
9	Sniffing things	64
10	Impulse shopping	59

Sniffing things might seem like a strange habit for people to have, but as far as I understand it from TV there does seem to be a lot of people with smell fetishes, often stuff like shoes or other leather products.

Q: Please tell me what habit you’re always thinking about wanting to quit, but just can’t manage it. (Sample size=5,595, free answer, by sex)

Rank	Men N=2,874	Votes	Rank	Women N=2,721	Votes
1	Tobacco	174	1	Biting nails	172
2	Biting nails	136	2	Snacking	156
3	Jiggling leg, tapping foot	116	3	Touching hair	118
4	Touching or picking nose	108	4	Smoking	77
5	Drinking	53	5	Touching or picking nose	52
6	Snacking	47	6	Cracking knuckles, neck, etc	47
7	Cracking knuckles, neck, etc	43	7=	Peeling skin or picking at scabs	43
8	Touching hair	34	7=	Sniffing things	43
9	Impulse shopping	29	9	Crossing legs	35
10	Scratching head	27	10	Staying up late	31

Is crossing legs supposed to be a bad habit for women? It seems it is, according to this forum, but that’s news to me!