The last weekend has provided a welcome break from the 35℃ heat so I’ve now got a little energy to update the blog with this appropriate survey from @nifty into coping with the summer heat.
Anything lower than about 26℃ on the air conditioning is too cold for me, but my wife prefers a degree or so less, so I’m sure you can guess who wins… I don’t go out without my hat as my father has recurring melanoma on the top of his head from too much tropical sun, and my Airism T-shirt. Fans just irritate me; the fap-fap-fap as people wave them about and brush them against things in the train, and the second-hand breeze from them just doesn’t feel right. I’m also not convinced that they do anything useful in a train that already has strong air conditioning, and the typical user is a podgy middle-aged man that would be cooler if they lost a few kilos rather than working themselves into more of a sweat with their paper fan. I might want to use a parasol, but as a bloke it doesn’t quite feel right and I’ve not seen sufficiently manly parasols that I might want to use.
One way Japanese cool down is by visiting a Haunted House; these appear in midsummer rather than Halloween as the chill that runs down your spine allegedly has a cooling effect. Here is a typical advertising board for a Haunted House:
Research results
Q1: At what temperature do you most often set your air conditioner or cooler to in the summer? (Sample size=2,573)
19℃ or less 0% 20℃ 0% 21℃ 0% 22℃ 1% 23℃ 2% 24℃ 4% 25℃ 7% 26℃ 17% 27℃ 24% 28℃ 24% 29℃ 3% 30℃ or more 2% Don’t use air conditioning 11% Don’t know 2% Counter-intuitively for me, about 18% of the 39 or under group didn’t use air conditioning whilst just 8% of the over-sixties did; I thought it was older people who were less sensitive to heat and more reluctant to waste electricity on such a frivolity.
Q2: When going to bed in the summer, at what inside temperature do you switch on your air conditioner or cooler? (Sample size=2,573)
22℃ or less 0% 23℃ 1% 24℃ 2% 25℃ 7% 26℃ 6% 27℃ 8% 28℃ 17% 29℃ 9% 30℃ or more 22% Always use air conditioning 7% Don’t have air conditioning in bedroom 6% Don’t use air conditioning while sleeping 14% Q3: Other than food or drink, what measures against the heat do you take, would want to take when going out? (Sample size=2,573, multiple answer)
Male Female Wear hat 45.8% 51.8% Use human-powered fan 44.5% 59.4% Wear cool-feel inners (Airism, etc) 24.5% 29.0% Wear cooling neck strap 20.9% 22.5% Use parasol 10.6% 66.8% Use cooling spray 15.8% 19.3% Wear cold compress (non-stick type) 10.5% 19.7% Use cool bag 9.5% 25.1% Use battery-powered fan 6.3% 10.0% Use cooling fan that attaches to clothes 6.1% 3.5% Use a cooling effect vest 5.8% 2.1% Wear cold compress (stick-on type) 3.6% 4.9% Rub in cooling gel 2.1% 2.1% Use ice pack 2.2% 1.4% Other 1.1% 2.3% Don’t use, want to use any 19.4% 6.5% Q4: Other than food or drink, what measures against the heat do you take, would want to take when indoors? (Sample size=2,573, multiple answer)
Male Female Use electric fan, circulator 61.5% 65.4% Use human-powered fan 35.4% 34.8% Use cooling bed sheets, bed mat 24.7% 33.9% Use cooling pillow 15.9% 24.6% Wear cool-feel inners (Airism, etc) 13.2% 14.2% Wear cooling neck strap 11.5% 19.3% Use cooling quilt 10.1% 11.6% Use cooling towel 8.4% 7.0% Wear cold compress (non-stick type) 7.7% 9.5% Use cooling spray 8.0% 8.4% Wear cold compress (stick-on type) 4.8% 8.1% Use cooling cushion 4.4% 7.0% Rub in cooling gel 2.7% 2.6% Wear cooling slippers 2.1% 3.0% Other 1.9% 3.9% Don’t use, want to use any 13.8% 11.8% Q5: What do you think about the measures being planned for taking against the heat at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? (Sample size=2,573)
Should take more measures 62.5% Current measures are sufficient 6.2% Should take less measures 3.5% Don’t know 18.0% Move dates, other 9.8% The 9.8% was labelled as just “Other” in the survey, but most people in their free answer suggested moving the dates away from midsummer.
Q6: Have you been bitten by mosquitoes more or less this summer due to the heat? (Sample size=2,573)
Less 57.4% About the same 26.3% More 4.9% Don’t know 11.4% Q7: Have you tried to get tanned? (Sample size=2,573)
Male Female Didn’t plan to be, but I am 41.0% 24.1% Try to avoid it 30.6% 65.4% Not bothered whether I am 25.7% 8.8% Proactively try to tan 2.7% 1.6%
Demographics
Between the 3rd and 9th of August 2018 2,573 members of the @nifty monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. No further demographic details were provided.
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