世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s another quick but fun survey from goo Ranking for your Sunday enjoyment; what did you find surprising when you entered further education.

Demographics

Over the 21st and 22nd of February 2008 1,052 people from the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.7% were female, 6.4% in their teens, 15.7% in their twenties, 31.0% in their thirties, 26.6% in their forties, 11.2% in their fifties, and 9.1% aged sixty or over. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

When I started uni in Scotland, I think the most surprising thing I realised was that women… I’d better not finish that one as my wife and mother read my blog!

Ranking results

Q: What did you find suprising when you entered further education? (Sample size=1,052)

Rank		Score
1	Open book exams	100
2	There were days I didn’t need to go to classes	98.2
3	Lectures were half-hearted, vague	89.3
4	People much older/younger in the same class	76.8
5	Textbooks, dictionaries, were expensive	69.6
6	Long lectures	67.9
7	Aggressive touting for clubs	66.1
8	Lots of different accents, dialects	55.4
9	Could choose what one wants to learn	55.4
10	Couldn’t understand other class members	51.8
11	Lots of people faking roll call for others	44.6
12	Large classes	37.5
13	Books available on the high street were sometimes used as textbooks	37.5
14	Could take calculators to exams	33.9
15=	Campus shop sold electrical goods, furniture	30.4
15=	Many campuses	30.4
17	Large-scale campus	28.6
18=	Were compulsory subject	25.0
18=	New student welcome party	25.0
20	Easy to increase number of friends of the opposite sex	23.2