世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s a fun survey from goo Ranking, looking at what white lies people can’t help telling to members of the opposite sex for both women lying to men and men lying to women.

Demographics

Between the 20th and 22nd of August 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were male, 8.4% in their teens, 14.2% in their twenties, 26.7% in their thirties, 28.2% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 11.2% 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.

Ranking result

Q: What white lies can’t you avoid telling guys you fancy? (Sample size=527, women)

Rank		Score
1	My weight	100
2	How many guys I’ve been out with before	92.6
3	Whether I have a current boyfriend	45.7
4	How long I haven’t had a boyfriend for	44.4
5	How good (or bad) I am at cooking	35.8
6	How good I am at doing housework	30.9
7=	Talking about a common hobby	28.4
7=	How I spend my days off	28.4
9	Pretending that I bought myself stuff I actually received as a gift	27.2
10=	How bad I am at getting up in the morning	23.5
10=	How much savings I have	23.5
10=	My age	23.5
13	What hobbies I’m really into	22.2
14	When I have to be home by at night	13.6
15	The kind of guy I fancy	12.3
16=	How much I spend on my hobbies	8.6
16=	My salary	8.6
18=	How much I spend on clothes	7.4
18=	What kind of work I do	7.4
18=	My height	7.4

Q: What white lies can’t you avoid telling girls you fancy? (Sample size=550, men)

Rank		Score
1	How many girls I’ve been out with before	100
2	How long I haven’t had a girlfriend for	76.6
3	Whether I have a current girlfriend	51.9
4	How I spend my days off	42.9
5	The kind of girl I fancy	40.3
6	Talking about a common hobby	39.0
7	What hobbies I’m really into	37.7
8=	What fetishes I have about women	28.6
8=	How much savings I have	28.6
8=	My salary	28.6
11	My age	26.0
12	My weight	22.1
13	What kind of work I do	16.9
14=	How bad I am at getting up in the morning	15.6
14=	How much I spend on my hobbies	15.6
14=	My height	15.6
17	How good I am at doing housework	11.7
18	Pretending that I bought myself stuff I actually received as a gift	9.1
19	How good (or bad) I am at cooking	7.8
20	How good I am at driving	6.5