世論 What Japan Thinks

A timely survey this is, with a new female graduate joining our team at work from tomorrow. The survey is from goo Ranking, looking at twenty moments when the junior staff of the female persuation give you the hots for them.

Demographics

Between the 23rd and 26th of April 2010 1,187 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-base questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.1% in their teens, 17.4% in their twenties, 30.9% in their thirties, 24.9% in their forties, 10.1% in their fifties, and 6.5% 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. Only the men in the sample answered this question.

Despite the enticing title of the survey, this is a particularly tame set of results from goo Ranking, especially as there are two types of answers mixed up – the woman leading the man on and the man getting excited by her actions. Number 6 in particular is rather creepy.

Ranking result

Q: What moments does the new girl in the office give you the hots for them? (Sample size=458, male)

Rank		Score
1	When she passed me Valentines chocolates when no-one else is around	100
2	When I’m talking she looks at me with a dreamy gaze	92.0
3=	In the train, when she gets tired and sleeps on my shoulder	89.0
3=	When she leaves a snack on my desk with a “thanks for your hard work” note attacked	89.0
5	On the way back from visiting a client, she says “We’re like a couple of lovers”	75.0
6	When I see her crying after being shouted at by the boss	72.0
7	When working late into the night she passes me a drink and words of encouragement	70.0
8	When at a social event, she shows an active side that usually isn’t seen	64.0
9	When she pumps her fist with joy on making her first sale at work	62.0
10	On the evening of her first day on assignment when she sends a mail saying “You’re the only person I can rely on”	61.0
11	When she says “Can you take me to a place with a grown-up atmosphere?”	58.0
12	When I see a telephone message she’s taken for me with a cute heart, smiley, etc at the end	56.0
13	When I see her in clothes other than her first work suit	53.0
14	When she first introduces herself with a smile unsullied by the realities of working life	52.0
15	At a work party when she talks with me about the problems with her love life	46.0
16	Before her first presentation when she looks me in the eye and asks me to check it	38.0
17	Unused to parties, when she tries with all her might to do her act	33.0
18	The next morning after working through all the night, when I see her sleeping soundly at her desk	28.0
19	When she gazes longingly at a successful female role model in the office	11.0
20	After radically changing her hairstyle, exclaiming that she wants to change herself	9.0