世論 What Japan Thinks

Only time for a quicky today from goo Ranking, this time looking at what one looks back on with an embarrassed laugh.

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.

Number one seems a bit of a contradiction, as being completely and utterly out of it by definition means that one cannot recall the incident! If I think about it, I can recall a number of incidents that would fit the bill for this survey, but as they’re embarrassing, I’m not telling you what they are!

Ranking result

Q: What behaviour in your past do you look back on and laugh at in embarrassment? (Sample size=1,077)

Rank		Score
1	Me being completely and utterly drunk	100
2	My strange hairstyle	89.1
3	Me using words without knowing the correct meaning	88.3
4	My strange fashion	83.8
5	Me reading words wrongly	78.1
6	Me in love	64.4
7	My passion of youth	53.0
8	My pride in inconsequential things	47.4
9	My rebellious phase	43.3
10	My obesity	40.5
11	My obsessive love	27.9
12	Me thinking I was attractive to the opposite sex	27.1
13	My grand failure	26.7
14	My aspirations to delinquency	21.1
15	Me scared of ghosts	19.4
16	My grand failure declaring my love	18.2
17	My room packed with my collections	14.6
18	My fleeting appearance on TV, in a magazine	12.6
19	Me being two-timed	11.7
20	Me always finding faults in my boyfriend/girlfriend	7.3