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.
I did spend all summer in hospital one year, and another year after playing on the beach the result of our play (undermining a sand dune then breaking the turf on top – I’m sure there was a good reason for it) featured on the front page of the local paper as an example of coastal erosion… Read the rest of this entry »
Continuing the foreign holiday theme, this time goo Ranking looked at when Japanese feel they are back home after overseas travel. The actual title contains one of these Japanese words that I always find difficult to translate; it’s the feeling of being able to relax after something stressful or challenging, the sigh after the first mouthful of cold beer that lets out all the stress of a hard day’s work, for instance. If any of my readers wish to chip in with a good translation for ?????, please comment!
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.
My feeling of being back home is going to Starbucks in Kansai Airport arrivals lounge; it’s a combination of trying to make myself understood in Japanese through a faceful of stubble and hangover-enhanced jetlag, the staff trying their hardest with English, and when it comes to pay, my triumphant I’m-not-just-another-bloody-tourist moment as I wave my Kabibara-san-encased electronic cash and declare “PiTaPa onegaishimasu!”
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.
The one time I used my mobile phone overseas all I used was SMS as proper email and all other uses involving data packets are horrendously expensive; one SMS in itself was 100 yen, and although email data packets would be cheaper for the equivalent 140 SMS characters, email would encourage my wife to start pasting in decomail icons or attaching photos…
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. I believe this survey was for males only.
Number three, not being able to read the mood, is one of my favourite sketches from The Fast Show
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.
Here’s a fun wee survey from goo Ranking, looking at the top ten jobs that Japanese wanted to do when they were a child, for both boys and girls.
Demographics
Over the 24th and 24th of May 2011 1,085 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.5% of the sample were male, 11.0% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.5% in their thirties, 25.1% in their forties, 12.6% in their fifties, and 8.6% 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.
I’m actually surprised by the results being a bit more adult that when I was a kid. Doctors, football players, pilots and spacemen was as far as we got, none of this author business or translators or diplomats. However, I do suspect there is a little bit of selective memory going on, as there are no train drivers for the boys.
When my brother was in the last year at primary school, I think it was, he wrote an essay on what he wanted to be; a dog eutheniser at the police pound. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
When I was a student, the most popular image was developing a taste for gin and tonic. I’ve never acquired it myself to this day… Quite frankly, I barely identify with any of the answers! Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com reported on another new regular survey series from goo Research, this time being a look at the display of mobile advertisements.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 13th of July 2011 1,094 mobile phone-using (including smartphones) members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private mobile phone-based questionnaire. 59.3% of the sample were female, 3.2% in their teens, 27.0% in their twenties, 37.5% in their thirties, 23.6% in their forties, and 8.8% aged fifty or older.
I’ve seen advertisements on my mobile, but as the default iMode home page has an advertisement, I’m surprised that as many as 5.7% had not seen advertisements; perhaps as the ads are so well blended in that most of that 5.7% haven’t actually realised they are seeing them. Read the rest of this entry »
Not that I personally have much interest in eye makeup, but I did like this recent ranking survey from goo Ranking into eye makeup failures as it seems to have invented a whole new batch of words.
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 question was for the women only.
Here’s a bit of an odd advert I picked up off selena lynn’s page on flickr:
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.
As my Twitter followed count is very low (I rarely read it myself!) I think just about everyone falls under the same hobbies classification, namely running a Japan blog.
By the way, I’ve been playing around with Google’s new social network Google+ (drop me a line if you want an invite!), and I suspect it might have more of an effect on Twitter than Facebook; I’ve never worked out how in Twitter to follow a conversation; everything seems just one way to me. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com reported on another new regular survey series from goo Research, this time being a look at the 
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