世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s a fun survey from goo Ranking that would be even better if it were split by sex, but even though it isn’t you can probably guess which answers each sex tended to choose in this survey into what things that your spouse does that get you irritated.

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of June 2011 1,148 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were male, 12.1% in their teens, 16.9% in their twenties, 28.0% in their thirties, 25.4% in their forties, 9.7% in their fifties, and 7.9% 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. This survey was only for married people, but that figure was not reported.

The one that irritates me the most is her clipping her nails; I hate anyone using nail clippers and it really sets my teeth on edge. Actually, I don’t think I’ve told her straight out it annoys me so she should only do it when I’m not in the house, although she does know that it does annoy me.

I’m guilty of number three and I know it does annoy her, and recently she’s become addicted to a Japanese version of Farmville, which eats up vast amounts of the day and night for her.

Ranking result

Q: What actions by your spouse make you irritated? (Sample size=1,148)

Rank		Score
1	Being in a bad mood for no discernable reason	100
2	Nagging	62.1
3	Loud snoring	50.6
4	Scattering things all around the room	44.3
5	Hoarding things	42.4
6	Leaving clothes lying around after undressing	40.4
7	Dragging things up from the past	39.2
8	Frequently switching the channel	35.0
9	Lots of negative comments	33.1
10	Not listening to me	29.6
11=	Sleeping all day on days off	25.8
11=	Forgetting to switch off the toilet light	25.8
13	Coming home drunk	22.0
14	Not being able to get themselves out of bed in the morning	21.0
15	Occasionally doing some housework in a different way from me	20.4
16	Announcing a drinking session and cancelling dinner that evening	20.1
17	Not helping out with the children	18.5
18=	Taking a long time to get ready to go out	16.9
18=	Often snacking	16.9
20	Playing computer games all the time	15.6
21	Not preparing breakfast for me	12.4
22	Forgetting my birthday, our anniversary	12.1
23	Going off out by themselves on days off	11.5
24	Comparing me with a friend’s partner	10.8
25	Always taking shortcuts cooking the evening meal	9.6
26	Running back to their parents at the first hint of problems	7.6
27	Staying out all night saying they missed the last train	2.9