世論 What Japan Thinks

Next in an occasional series of goo Ranking-supplied silliness on views of home life is what people can’t help checking out when visiting a friend’s room, for both checking women and checking men.

Demographics

Between the 25th and 28th of July 2008 1,072 members of the goo Research online monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.3% of the sample were male, 5.7% in their teens, 14.4% in their twenties, 31,0% in their thirties, 28.1% in their forties, 10.5% in their fifties, and 10.4% 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.

Coincidentally, recently I got an email from a reader asking for links to other surveys on this sort of topic, so here goes: scary home life of friends of the opposite sex and why your room turns women or men off.

Ranking result

Q: What things in a woman’s room do you end up checking? (Sample size=1,072)

Rank		Score
1	How tidy the room is	100
2	Overall atmosphere of the room	85.1
3	If the toilet is clean	42.7
4	If the kitchen is tidy	38.6
5	Woman’s behaviour	32.8
6	Old photos, albums	21.6
7	If there is an ashtray	18.7
8	If washing is piled up	16.2
9	If the bathroom sink area is tidy	14.5
10	Fridge contents	13.7
11	Type of computer	12.9
12	If there are male cosmetics, other items around	12.0
13	Types of DVDs	10.0
14	Number of toothbrushes	7.9
15	Number of manga, comics	6.2
16=	Number of cuddly toys	5.4
16=	Inside the closets	5.4
16=	If there are men’s shoes in the shoes box	5.4
19	Number of outfits, bags	4.6
20	If there are musical instruments	4.1

Q: What things in a man’s room do you end up checking? (Sample size=1,072)

Rank		Score
1	Overall atmosphere of the room	100
2	How tidy the room is	94.3
3	Man’s behaviour	49.4
4	Old photos, albums	33.2
5	If there are female cosmetics, other items around	31.6
6	If the toilet is clean	30.4
7	If the kitchen is tidy	27.5
8	Fridge contents	17.8
9	If washing is piled up	16.2
10	Number of toothbrushes	13.0
11	If the bathroom sink area is tidy	12.6
12	If anything is hidden under the bed	12.1
13	Whether there are moe (manga schoolgirls with infeasibly large breasts, basically) figurines	11.3
14	Number of manga, comics	10.9
15	If there is an ashtray	10.1
16=	Matching mugs	9.7
16=	Types of DVDs	9.7
18	If there are women’s shoes in the shoes box	8.5
19	Number of mobile phones	6.1
20	Inside the closets	5.7