世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s a fun survey from goo Ranking that I’d love to hear everyone else’s input on! The looked at what people secretly think they are number one for amongst their friends. Sadly there wasn’t a male/female split!

Demographics

Between the 24th and 26th of September 2008 1,044 members of the goo Research online monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were male, 5.8% in their teens, 12.7% in their twenties, 32.3% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, 12.3% in their fifties, and 9.3% 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.

Apart from obviously being the most handsome amongst my fellow gaijin bloggers, I secretly believe that I put the most effort per post into my blogs compared to you lot of slackers who just slap up a few videos from YouTube mixed in with a bit of Engrish and… Oops, I just remembered that the survey isn’t “Why are your friends all useless?”

What’s your secret boast? Don’t worry, I won’t tell.

(I also didn’t repeat my previous mistake when translating number 3 here)

Research results

Q: What do you secretly think you are number one for amongst your friends? (Sample size=1,044)

Rank		Score
1	Most considerate	100
2	Most lucky	87.9
3	Most intelligent	70.0
4	Most interesting talker	67.9
5	Most youthful	55.7
6	Most sharp	53.6
7=	Most frequent traveler	50.7
7=	Best fashion sense	50.7
9	Most tuned to the latest gossip	50.0
10	Most particular eater	48.6
11	Best looker	45.0
12	Highest calibre	42.9
13	Best cook	42.1
14	Best reflexes	40.7
15	Most complete life	40.0
16	Most green	39.3
17	Most attractive to the opposite sex	33.6
18	Longest (or shortest?) history of singleness	32.1
19	Most loved by partner	28.6
20	Best sense for choosing partner	26.4