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＜Data Joke＞ Being creative with world house cleaning survey

  • Release date: Sep 20, 2021
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Kärcher(2019) compares the result of "How long do you spend for house cleaning per week" by country. Obviously Japanese are not as hygienic as Russian. Maybe not as simple as that. Or houses in Russia and Poland are exceptionally nicely cleaned up. I haven't been there so it maybe is the truth.

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    Reference : Kärcher(2019),https://www.kaercher.com/jp/newsroom/kaercher-stories/int-cleaning-2019.html

This chart stimulate my imagination on what's the reasons behind. Let me "make" some stories. First of all, Japanese put off shoes at the entrance so it is easy to clean up a house. Secondly, Japanese moves very fast in house so they finish cleaning faster. Not so reasonable. I have never seen but houses in Russia can be three times as big as in Japan. (Can be!).

What I felt sorry about the referred article (Kärcher(2019)) is "In all countries, females spend longer time for house cleaning than males". I assume basically most of females' room is much cleaner than males (Wrong in many meaning). So sorry about that.


*This story uses real data but whole story is fiction.

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    Jun Hasegawa

    I have been stationed in Singapore for many years, and am currently working in Tokyo
    I use data in my writing, but it is mainly jokes.
    Just want to use data not only for logical view but for some fun!

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