世論 What Japan Thinks

A lot of foreigners in Japan reacon that the whole Japanese university system is a big failure, but this survey looked at the things in people’s university life that they felt may have been a little failure.

Demographics

Between the 17th and 18th of January 2012 1,048 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.6% of the sample were female, 12.3% in their teens, 15.6% in their twenties, 27.9% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, 9.5% in their fifties, and 8.9% in their sixties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

It’s a bit sad that it takes until the very last entry to have something about the opposite sex! My only regret from university is that I imagined … no, that’s not really a regret (and rather embarrassing to take any further). Other than that, none really, I suppose, except that I wish I hadn’t been so naive, but as I still am, I suppose I’ll forever be naive!

Ranking result

Q: What things in your university life did you feel were a little failure? (Sample size=1,048)

Rank		Score
1	I didn’t take mock tests	100
2	I hung out with the same group of friends	73.5
3	I spent all my time doing a part-time job	57.6
4	I didn’t attend culture festivals, other events	50.6
5	I didn’t take part in job-hunting activites	47.1
6	As I picked any old field to study, I wasn’t interested in the classes	46.5
7	I sat in the back seats during lectures	44.7
8	I spent all my free time at home in my room	42.9
9	I didn’t join any clubs or societies so couldn’t make friends	41.8
10	I just went to lectures to fill out the attendence card	35.9
11	I didn’t attend any seminars	31.8
12	I spent all the time boozing	29.4
13=	I didn’t submit coursework by the cut-off date	26.5
13=	I didn’t make my own notes, just copied from friends	26.5
15	I didn’t write a graduation thesis	25.9
16=	I lived by myself near to the university	21.2
16=	I never managed to make a single 9am class	21.2
18	I became a fixture in the society’s club-house	19.4
19	I had a too way-out haircut	11.8
20	I joined lots of societies	10.6
21=	I prefered dating parties to lectures	9.4
21=	I spent all the time at home on-line gaming	9.4
23=	I spoke frankly with the lecturer	7.1
23=	I related too many tales of my triumphs and scared all of the opposite sex away	7.1
23=	I always ended up as the gofer	7.1