世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s some fun from goo Ranking, looking at these awkward moments for both men and women.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 24th of July 2009 1,026 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 48.2% of the sample were male, 8.0% in their teens, 14.6% in their twenties, 28.8% in their thirties, 26.0% in their forties, 12.5% in their fifties, and 10.1% 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.

The following video might give you a hint as to the meaning of the question below, and illustrates answer 3 perfectly!

Ranking result

Q: What’s your “I’ll get me coat” moment? (Sample size=495, men)

Rank		Score
1	When I smell of sweat	100
2	When I enter a Japanese room and there’s a hole in my socks	98.6
3=	When I think something (joke, etc) will go over well but it dies a death	83.5
3=	When I’m dressed all wrong for the TPO (time, place, occasion)	83.5
5	When I vomit after drinking too much	73.4
6	When I can’t talk properly in front of someone I fancy	69.1
7	When I go and talk about something I know I shouldn’t mention	67.6
8	When I cannot properly praise a woman	59.7
9	When I’ve got clothes or socks on back-to-front or inside-out	56.1
10	When I end up not dressing properly for the weather	51.8

Q: What’s your “I’ll get me coat” moment? (Sample size=531, women)

Rank		Score
1	When I enter a Japanese room and there’s a hole in my socks	100
2	When I’m dressed all wrong for the TPO (time, place, occasion)	91.0
3	When I think something (joke, etc) will go over well but it dies a death	73.0
4	When I end up not dressing properly for the weather	69.7
5	When I’ve got clothes or socks on back-to-front or inside-out	66.4
6	When I smell of sweat	59.2
7	When I vomit after drinking too much	58.3
8	When I go and talk about something I know I shouldn’t mention	54.0
9	When I’m at my front door but can’t find my key	53.1
10	When my shoe’s heel, sole falls off	47.9