世論 What Japan Thinks

If you’ve recently fallen out of love, my sympathies and please stop reading now! Otherwise, enjoy with me today’s Silly Sunday with goo Ranking where we look at what people do when their hearts get broken, for both boys and men and girls and women, as the sample was restricted to the under thirties.

Demographics

Between the 11th and 15th of July 2008 1,064 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.9% of the sample were female, 10.3% in their teens and 89.7% in their twenties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I’m not sure if the “do nothing” option means to fall into a catatonic state or to just shrug your shoulders and get on with life, although I would like to believe that it is the first of the two!

Photo from нσвσ on flickr. Just in case you can’t read, the kanji is “heart”.

Ranking results

Q: What do you do when your heart gets broken? (Sample size=595, men)

Rank		Score
1	Get drunk	100
2	Listen to rousing music	76.7
3	Immerse myself in my hobbies	68.6
4	Moan at friends	51.6
5	Go off on a trip by myself	50.9
6	Cry my eyes out	44.0
7	Do nothing	37.7
8	Go for a drive	37.1
9	Immerse myself in study, work	35.2
10	Purge cellphone memory	33.3
11	Go to karaoke with friends	30.8
12	Immerse myself in sports	28.9
13	Scream loudly	28.3
14	Go to a dating party	27.0
15	Don’t give up	25.2
16	Chuck all her stuff away	23.3
17	Vent (punch the wall, etc)	21.4
18	Go off on a trip with friends	18.9
19	Buy new clothes	18.2
20	Rearrange my room	17.6

Q: What do you do when your heart gets broken? (Sample size=469, women)

Rank		Score
1	Cry my eyes out	100
2	Get drunk	66.5
3	Moan at friends	63.0
4	Change hairstyle, cut hair	55.7
5	Listen to rousing music	52.8
6	Stuff my gob with cakes	48.7
7	Purge cellphone memory	47.2
8	Go to karaoke with friends	46.8
9	Buy new clothes	44.3
10	Chuck all his stuff away	38.0
11	Immerse myself in my hobbies	35.1
12	Go to a dating party	28.5
13	Immerse myself in study, work	24.1
14	Go off on a trip by myself	22.8
15	Rearrange my room	22.2
16	Go off on a trip with friends	19.9
17	Go for a drive	19.0
18	Do nothing	17.1
19	Recall all the things I hated about him	16.1
20	Scream loudly	15.8