世論 What Japan Thinks

Following up on beach date FAIL, we have another survey from goo Ranking looking at what people don’t want to see from their partners during travel, for both women discussing their men and men discussing their women.

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.

My pet hate on holiday is my wife taking far too many photos or videos whenever we visit palaces and the like, photos and videos that we ourselves will never watch again let alone give to someone else. I don’t mind her pinching all the shampoo from the hotel room, but I do mind her rather obsessive behaviour that extends to hiding half-empty bottles so that we’ll get new bottles the next day…

From her point of view, it’s my lack of planning – I’m pretty easy-going when it comes to holidays, so having a schedule makes it seem just a bit too much like work. I don’t know why on earth sleeping with her mouth open figures in the male list!

Ranking result

Q: What don’t you want to see from your partner when travelling? (Sample size=489, men)

Rank		Score
1	Poor time-keeping	100
2	Wearing inappropriate clothes for the location	83.6
3	Not tidying up the luggage	55.5
4	Being too strict with time-keeping	54.5
5	Taking all the amenities with her from the hotel room	47.3
6	Haphazardness	46.4
7	Poor preparation	43.6
8	Sleeping with her mouth open	43.6
9	Sleeping in late	40.9
10	Planning on the basis of whether she can collect points, air miles, etc	39.1

Q: What don’t you want to see from your partner when travelling? (Sample size=691, women)

Rank		Score
1	Poor preparation	100
2	Wearing inappropriate clothes for the location	90.4
3	Haphazardness	89.0
4	Poor driving skills	85.8
5	Poor time-keeping	73.5
6	Being too strict with time-keeping	72.1
7	Not being able to ask passers-by to take photos	68.9
8	Poor map-reading	66.2
9	Scary driving	62.6
10	Not taking preventative measures against travel sickness	52.1