Childish actions Japanese still do as adults

By Ken Y-N ( May 6, 2012 at 01:13) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

Since today is Children?s Day, goo Ranking celebrated by publishing this survey looking at childish actions that people can?t quit.

Demographics

Over the 29th of February and the 1st of March 2012 1,175 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.0% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 29.3% in their thirties, 24.1% in their forties, 10.6% in their fifties, and 9.5% 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.

For me, it?s kicking up piles of leaves and booting pine cones down the road! I also do the cake size comparison, which does annoy the spousal unit no end.

Let?s have a picture not related the survey, but of koinobori, the carp streamers that fly every Children?s Day. And a Wooden Horse of Troy.

Ranking results

Q: What childish actions can you not quit? (Sample size=1,175)

Rank	?	Score
1	Soon going in the huff when there?s something I?m not interested in	100
2	Getting miffed easily	92.0
3	Comparing the size of my slice of cake, etc with others	63.5
4	Only stepping on the coloured tiles when out walking	59.9
5	Getting jealous easily	55.8
6	Blatently basing my actions on the influence of a film, TV programme I watched, book, magazine I read	52.8
7	Believing in jinxes	51.1
8	Checking the smell of everything	40.9
9	Taking a lyric and singing an odd improvisation around it as I work	38.7
10	Jiggling my legs when sitting	34.0
11	Crying easily	33.4
12	Sleeping with my favourite toy, blanket, etc	30.9
13	Passing off little fictions as true stories to others	29.0
14=	Imitating the speech patterns of an animation character	26.5
14=	Adding ?Biff!?-type sound effects when hitting people	26.5
16	Chasing pigeons, etc	24.9
17	Stealthily putting hated food onto other people?s plates	23.5
18	Lining up hated vegetables around the rim of the plate	20.2
19	Eating sweets straight out of the wrapper	16.0
20	Telling tales of derring-do	15.5

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