Surprising Japanese parent mad skillz

I think that’s the term young folk would use for this survey from goo Ranking that looked at what people would be surprised to see their parents using like it was second nature.

Demographics

Over the 22nd and 23rd of July 2011 1,114 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 65.4% of the sample were female, 12.3% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 28.6% in their thirties, 24.8% in their forties, 10.1% in their fifties, and 7.7% 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.

Here’s a couple of old folk giving it laldy on Dance Dance Revolution:

Via Japan Probe.

Ranking result

Q: What would you be surprised to see your parents using or doing skillfully? (Sample size=1,114)

Rank		Score
1	Smartphone	100
2	Twitter	70.3
3	mixi, Facebook, other SNS	66.8
4	English	61.3
5	iPad	55.3
6	Osaifu Keitai, mobile phone electronic cash	50.7
7	Electronic cash (non-mobile phone)	46.0
8	Social game	45.1
9=	Microsoft Excel, Word, other office software	38.8
9=	Console game	38.8
11	Portable audio player	37.9
12	Programming the video timer	34.8
13	Digital memo (Pomera, etc)	26.2
14	Printer, scanner	24.7
15	Car satellite navigation	21.1
16	Online shopping site	20.4