世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s one from goo Ranking quite high up on the silliness scale, things that are sorer than they look.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 2nd of February 2009 1,076 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were male, 7.2% in their teens, 15.8% in their twenties, 29.4% in their thirties, 25.2% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 11.3% 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.

I’m sure all the guys in the audience will be wincing at number five – perhaps its high ranking is from women not empathising with us in our moment of suffering. Talking about that region, other more obvious (to us guys at least) pains have perhaps been removed for the sake of decency.

For me personally, I sometimes get a trapped muscle in my neck that hurts something awful!

Ranking result

Q: What is sorer than it looks? (Sample size=1,076)

Rank		Score
1	Pinkie banging on the corner of a cabinet	100
2	Finger-tip paper cut	51.1
3	Stubbed toe	47.9
4	Biting tongue while talking	39.5
5	Skin trapped in a zip	35.2
6	Scraping against the plug hole when getting out of the bath	31.3
7	Cold drinks on a sensitive tooth	27.9
8	Going for a poo	26.5
9	Banged funny bone	23.8
10	Dust under a contact lens	22.8
11	Food going down the wrong way	22.0
12	Swallowing hard foods with a sore throat	19.2
13	Pricked by a thorn	16.1
14	Shampoo in the eyes	13.8
15	Twisted ankle	13.6
16	Plucked nose hair	13.0
17	Stitch from running	11.1
18	Sunburn	10.8
19	Bumping into a door, etc and getting glasses squashed into face	9.1
20	Child’s tricycle banging my shins	8.8
21	Punched in the face by a baby	8.8
22	Erupting wisdom teeth	8.4
23	Popped ears in an aeroplane	7.7
24	Scratched by a cat	4.3
25	Hair pulled from being stuck in a comb	4.0