世論 What Japan Thinks

No, that’s not the titles of the last two videos I rented, but instead they are the subjects of perhaps the dodgiest survey I’ve seen for a long while from goo Ranking into what actions by female staff set male hearts aflutter, and vice versa, what actions by male staff set female hearts aflutter.

Demographics

Between the 22nd and 24th of April 2008 1,048 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.7% of the sample was female, 7.1% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 27.4% in their forties, 11.6% in their fifties, and 10.2% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I presume that the more obviously perverted fetishes were eliminated from the initial answers, but still, some of them are bordering on the obsessive! Indeed, for the top female answer, the original results talked about Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct! As for me, I’ll be honest but boring and say that I never saw women around the office that way.

Ranking results

Q1: What actions by females in the office set your heart aflutter? (Sample size=506)

Rank		Score
1	Recrossing her legs	100
2	Tying her hair up before starting work	58.4
3	Picking up dropped documents	57.2
4	On the verge of bursting into tears after a failure at work	55.4
5	Getting stuff from a high shelf	47.6
6	Breaking into a semi-run with documents clutched to her chest	42.8
7	Fixing an out-of-place hair or two	39.8
8	Bending knees slightly when giving tea to a visitor at a low table	35.5
9	Resting chin on hands and studying the computer screen	32.5
10	Dozing off after an all-night session	27.1
11	After serving tea, clutching the tray to her chest	24.7
12	Eyes shut, quietly thinking about something	23.5
13	Teetering under the weight of a large package	23.5
14=	Holding the telephone receiver in both hands	18.1
14=	Eating lunch from a little lunch box	18.1
16	Sighing after tiring work	17.5
17	Looking at a computer and thinking	15.7
18	Fixing her blusher before going out	15.1
19=	Spinning in her chair then standing	13.3
19=	Opening the door and jauntily entering	13.3

Q2: What actions by males in the office set your heart aflutter? (Sample size=542)

Rank		Score
1	Lifting heavy things without straining	100
2	Undoing his top button and loosening his tie	70.5
3	Doing overtime with sleeves rolled up	60.3
4	Tying, straightening tie without looking in the mirror	46.2
5	Putting on his coat with a flourish	42.3
6=	Eyes shut, quietly thinking about something	34.6
6=	Leafing through documents with phone tucked under chin	34.6
8	Fastening cuff buttons on his shirt	29.5
9	Leaning back in his chair reading documents	28.8
10	Sitting on the edge of the desk talking on the phone	25.6