It’s the end of the world (as Japanese know it)
As today is the last day of my summer holidays, this survey from goo Ranking seems rather appropriate, asking what people think will cause humans to become extinct.
Demographics
From the 6th to the 9th of July 2012 1,016 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.0% of the sample were female, 9.9% in their teens, 12.7% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 27.0% in their forties, 11.0% in their fifties, and 10.3% 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.
My younger generation of readers will be disappointed to see that the zombie apocalypse (warning, contains swearing!) does not feature anywhere, and my older ones will note that number 19 is the closest to the truth:
Sorry, I couldn’t find a suitable link to the original series.
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