世論 What Japan Thinks

There’s something that hints of inherent sexism, or at least something that reflects the social standing of young women in Japan, in this survey from goo Ranking into what stuff that a girl was very knowledgable about would cause you to think “Oh!”. The survey used the term “girl”, but I think that includes young women.

Demographics

Over the 22nd and 23rd of January 2010 1,102 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were female, 12.6% in their teens, 18.4% in their twenties, 27.9% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 9.3% in their fifties, and 6.3% 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.

I hope I got the right “Oh!” here, one of impressed surprise, rather than an “Oh-oh!” kind of “Oh!”.

I’m not really sure why medical terminology is in the list, as even being sexist about it one would expect someone interested in being or studying towards becoming a nurse, for instance, to be familiar with such terms. Hmm, perhaps it is an “Oh-oh!” kind of “Oh!”? Then again, astronomy and architecture, for instance, is surely more of an “Ooooh!” kind of “Oh!”?

Ranking result

Q: A girl knowing a lot about what subject would impress you? (Sample size=1,102)

Rank		Score
1	Cars, motorcycles	100
2	Computers	84.5
3	Tanks, battleships, fighter planes, etc	57.4
4	Baseball	51.6
5	Fishing	39.4
6	History	38.1
7	Boy-, men-oriented comics	36.8
8	Medical terminology	33.5
9	Internet terminology	32.9
10	Robot anime	31.6
11	Pro wrestling	31.0
12=	Railways	30.3
12=	Programming	30.3
12=	Pugilistic arts	30.3
12=	Overseas football	30.3
16	Plastic models	29.7
17=	Astronomy	27.1
17=	Ruins	27.1
19	Western music	26.5
20	Shrines and temples	26.5
21=	Outdoors	25.8
21=	Types of alcohol	25.8
23=	Architecture	23.2
23=	Sumo	23.2
25	Smartphones, PDAs	22.6
26	Cameras, photography	21.9
27	Classical music	21.3
28	Watches	20.0
29	Fish and shellfish	19.4
30	Insects	19.4