世論 What Japan Thinks

Demographics

Between the 21st and 25th of May 2009 1,082 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.4% of the sample were male, 7.3% were in their teens, 16.0% in their twenties, 28.1% in their thirties, 27.9% in their forties, 10.8% in their fifties, and 9.9% 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. Note that this survey was for the 526 women only.

Surprisingly, the mistaken gas emissions features in the female list too. I can’t say I’ve ever actually noticed anyone passing gas on the train, and anyway bad breath is far worse and much longer-lasting than a momentary methane leak. Indeed, that would probably be right up the top of my list, having someone with the fragrant scent of ciggies, natto and peridontitis sitting beside me.

Photo from Laurie Pink on flickr.

Ranking result

Q: What bit of bad luck gets the day off to a bad start? (Sample size=526, female)

Rank		Score
1	Putting a ladder in new tights	100
2	Treading on discarded chewing gum	84.4
3	Realising I’ve forgotton my season ticket when I arrive at the station	73.6
4	Starting to rain on the way to work, school	73.2
5	Slipping and falling on the street, stairs	71.4
6	Being late for the usual train	70.6
7	Making a mistake with the rice cooker timer and finding the rice uncooked	67.5
8	Getting my heel broken off	65.4
9	Getting woken up early by a trivial phone call, email	63.6
10	Mobile phone battery running out just after I leave the house	62.8
11	Forgetting to set my alarm clock	62.3
12	Just missing the rubbish collection truck	57.6
13	Meeting someone I don’t like on the way to work, school	48.5
14=	Having someone else’s fart misconstrued as my own on the train	39.4
14=	Having the overload buzzer sound as I climb onto the lift	39.4
16	Finding what I planned to eat for breakfast has gone off	37.2
17=	Finding what I planned to wear hasn’t been washed	33.8
17=	My star sign being the worse one in the daily horoscope	33.8
17=	Realising the weather being hotter, colder than I thought when I leave the house	33.8
20	Someone standing on my foot in the train	23.4