世論 What Japan Thinks

As a little bit of levity to brighten up a rather dark week, here’s goo Ranking looking at bringing a smartphone to a dating party.

Demographics

Over the 13th and 14th of January 2011 1,084 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.7% of the sample were female, 10.1% in their teens, 16.4% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 23.6% in their forties, 9.8% in their fifties, and 10.2% 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.

What would impress me most would be people putting their phones away.

I haven’t a clue what number 20 is supposed to mean, and I would guess that the people answering didn’t know either. Thinking of answer number 1, I really should convert my own diagnostic sites, brainscanner and My Buddhist Name, into apps!

Ranking result

Q: What smartphone tricks would impress the opposite sex at a dating party? (Sample size=1,084)

Rank		Score
1	Playing with a personality diagnosis appli	100
2	Using a restaurant search appli to easily find somewhere for the after-party	96.5
3	Taking photos with a tablet for everyone to enjoy on the big screen	78.3
4	Taking videos with a tablet for everyone to enjoy on the big screen	62.6
5	Taking photos and manipulating them with a suitable appli	40.4
6	Show off the 3D feature	40.0
7	Show off my favourite photos	39.6
8	Gather up info on Twitter for a place that’s not in the restaurant guides	38.7
9	Boast about how I can do work without needing a PC	37.4
10	Use a portable hotspot to connect to the internet	36.1
11	Use an appli to search for a taxi to avoid the night-time surcharge	32.6
12	Use a GPS appli to get a special discount coupon	32.2
13	Play a tune using an instrument appli	30.9
14	Show a magazine article I scanned at home	28.7
15	Download and show a book everyone’s talking about	24.8
16	Show off my individualistic case	22.2
17	Show off an animated electronic book on a tablet’s big screen	20.0
18	Use Google Street Map to talk about a holiday	16.1
19	Search Wikipedia for some trivia to talk about	14.3
20	Use the Cloud	13.9