世論 What Japan Thinks

No, it’s not a new adult video from Japan, but instead one of a pair of surveys about techniques people use to get into their spouse’s good books, for both men currying favour with their wives and women currying favour with their husbands. Oh, and if you haven’t guessed already, this one too is of course from goo Ranking.

Demographics

Between the 22nd and 24th of June 2009 1,180 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 58.6% of the sample were female, 10.3% were in their teens, 22.9% in their twenties, 31.5% in their thirties, 19.2% in their forties, 9.6% in their fifties, and 6.4% 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.

This is a great list! However, for number 7, keep listening until she’s said everything, if I did that I could spend all day at it… Number 2, taking the initiative on the housework, wouldn’t work for me as evn though I do the majority (just) at the weekend, helping with her half is difficult as she’s very particular, even down to the colour of clothes pegs to use when hanging out the washing!

From my point of view, her curry and stew are probably her best way to butter me up, followed by a day where not just me, but both of us needn’t do much more than the basic housework. We had one of these days today, which was nice.

Ranking result

Q: What do you do to butter up your wife? (Sample size=489, men)

Rank		Score
1	Buy her something sweet	100
2	Take the initiative on doing the housework	73.0
3	Give her even just a small bunch of flowers	69.2
4	Verbally give thanks	62.9
5	Apologise frankly	56.6
6	Go out shopping together on the weekend	47.2
7	Keep listening to her until she’s said all she’s going to say	44.7
8	Give her a massage	37.1
9	Say “I love you” with feelings	35.8
10	Praise her with “you’re beautiful”	34.6
11	Propose a holiday	32.7
12	Do “skinship” (ie, give her a cuddle)	32.1
13	Give her a present of some accessories	31.4
14	Take her out for a little more expensive meal than usual	27.0
15	Do some food shopping	20.8
16	Go to the railway station to meet her	19.5
17	Tidy up the house for when she returns	18.2
18	Give her a day where she can go out by herself (girls night out, etc)	15.7
19	Make a day where she needn’t do anything	13.2
20	Promise her she can buy the clothes she wants	11.3

Q: What do you do to butter up your husband? (Sample size=691, women)

Rank		Score
1	Cook his favourite food	100
2	Do “skinship” (ie, give him a cuddle)	76.7
3	Verbally give thanks	72.2
4	Apologise frankly	54.3
5	Give him a massage	43.7
6	Praise him with “you’re looking cool”	42.9
7	Give him some pocket money	40.8
8	Keep listening to him until he’s said all he’s going to say	34.7
9	Say “I love you” with feelings	31.4
10	Give him a day where he can go out by herself (boys night out, etc)	29.4
11	Not get angry even after many work booze-ups in a row	29.0
12	Tidy up the house for when he returns	26.9
13	Go to the railway station to meet him	26.9
14	Buy him something sweet	26.1
15	Propose a holiday	13.1
16	Make a day where he needn’t do anything	11.4
17	Go out shopping together on the weekend	9.8
18	Take him out for a little more expensive meal than usual	6.9
19	Promise him he can buy the clothes he wants	6.1
20	Give him even just a small bunch of flowers	2.0