世論 What Japan Thinks

This recent survey from goo Ranking looked at unpleasant table manners in the opposite sex, a survey that was unfortunately not broken down by sex.

Demographics

Between the 23rd and 25th of March 2010 1,128 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.5% of the sample were female, 15.1% in their teens, 16.9% in their twenties, 28.8% in their thirties, 21.1% in their forties, 9.4% in their fifties, and 8.7% 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 could give a list a mile long of poor manners amongst the guys in the office, but for the female sex, I’d put smoking while eating top of the list – indeed, it’s strange that doesn’t figure in the results.

Ranking result

Q: What table manners in the opposite sex do you think are unpleasant? (Sample size=1,128)

Rank		Score
1	Being arrogant towards the staff	100
2	Making a noise while chewing	69.6
3	Chewing with mouth open	79.3
4	Sending email, talking on the phone at the table	63.8
5	Pointing at people with the cutlery	61.5
6	Eating with elbows on the table	57.5
7	Calling the staff with a loud voice	53.9
8	Slurping coffee, soup	48.2
9	Moving bowls, plates with chopsticks	47.8
10	Talking with mouth full	47.1
11=	Often spilling food from the plate	37.6
11=	Frequently touching hair while eating	37.6
13	Eating food from knife	35.7
14	Stabbing food with chopsticks	33.6
15	Using hands to eat food that is difficult to pick up with knife, fork	31.7
16	Silently and earnestly eating	31.3
17	Scraping cutlery on plates while eating	27.5
18	Using chopsticks wrongly	23.9
19	Using knife, fork wrongly	23.7
20	Washing down mouthfuls of food with drink	22.6