Japan data is skewed. It is unheard of for Japanese to not bathe daily, with about half of adults bathing twice a day. I think the word "shower" might have harmed the results in the Japanese case.
I agree that you can't use this chart to determine how clean a country's people are, but it's still interesting to see the outliers.
Brazilians have definitely told me about at least 2 showers per day being normal (especially now during their summer, which seems brutal). I have also met people in Colombia who still use rain water for their shower (and not owning a bathtub). I don't know how they do it; the water is freezing and it often comes out as a single stream, almost cutting into you like a laser.
Japan data is skewed. It is unheard of for Japanese to not bathe daily, with about half of adults bathing twice a day. I think the word "shower" might have harmed the results in the Japanese case.
ReplyDeleteI thought the exact same thing. Japan jumps out as just unbelievable and undermines the credibility of the whole chart
ReplyDeleteI agree that you can't use this chart to determine how clean a country's people are, but it's still interesting to see the outliers.
ReplyDeleteBrazilians have definitely told me about at least 2 showers per day being normal (especially now during their summer, which seems brutal). I have also met people in Colombia who still use rain water for their shower (and not owning a bathtub). I don't know how they do it; the water is freezing and it often comes out as a single stream, almost cutting into you like a laser.