Saturday, February 21, 2015

Weekend Data: How Often People in Various Countries Shower

Lots of surprising data here.


Average Showers and Shampoos by Country



Percent Who Shower Once per Day



--RW

(via The Atlantic)

3 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. I thought the exact same thing. Japan jumps out as just unbelievable and undermines the credibility of the whole chart

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  3. 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.

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