Stereotypes of the Nipponese: The Sailor Girls vs. The Antiseptic Zombies

• Sailor Girls: 7
• Antiseptic Zombies: 18

Now, for MY money, that is a crappy ratio. I would rather encounter a Sailor Girl than an Antiseptic Zombie any day of the week. So I began some frantic rationalization.

Ok, only females are likely to be wearing sailor outfits, but the Antiseptic Zombies have been, more or less, equally distributed between males and females. So we'll just divide the Antiseptic Zombie population in half. Yeah, that's what we'll do.

• Sailor Girls: 7
• Antiseptic Zombies: 9

Hmmm, still not quite what I was hoping to see, but a lot better, nonetheless.

Desperately needing to believe that there were really more Sailor Girls than there were Antiseptic Zombies in Tokyo, I cast about for more rationalizations.

Well, it IS 35 degrees Fahrenheit, out here. Maybe it is just too cold to get a proper sampling of the Sailor Girls. Maybe they are being forced, against their will, to wear something other than a sailor uniform by the tyranny of winter.

Feeling even better at this point, I realized that there was no way in hell I could come up with a half baked adjustment to the sample data that might represent this factor. While I was defeated in my goal of getting the numbers to explicitly SAY that there were more Sailor Girls than Antiseptic Zombies, I felt righteous and sure in my heart that was, indeed, the case.

The most likely reason for the lack of seifuku encounters is that is was the wrong time. After all, they're school uniforms, and outside of schools are therefore visible only on girls on their way from or to school, or in the evening if they have had no time to go home and change. Thus, during holidays or on sundays, as well as during school hours, the chances of meeting seifuku-clad girls are very low (well, except in image clubs, where you can "meet" one at just about any time).