世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Ranking this time takes us back to our childhood, when we began to feel the first pangs of love, asking what people did when they were young, foolish, and in love, for both women and men.

Demographics

Between the 23rd and 25th of March 2009 1,043 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 52.2% of the sample were male, 7.8% in their teens, 17.1% in their twenties, 28.2% in their thirties, 24.8% in their forties, 11.4% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Note that the answers cover teenage crushed on not just schoolmates but also unobtainable figures like teachers and pop stars.

The photo at the top is actually of San Francisco, but it was the first one that popped up then I searched flickr. My thanks to Thomas Hawk for making the picture available.

Ranking result

Q: Regarding love, what foolish things did you do when you were young? (Sample size=499, female)

Rank		Score
1	Obsessing over love spells	100
2	Spending many hours talking on the phone	93.3
3	Fervently praying that he would change seats and sit beside me	70.0
4=	Carrying a photo of the one I fancy	56.7
4=	Buying a photo of the one I fancy	56.7
6	Thinking of the one I fancy before sleeping so he’d appear in my dreams	55.8
7	Writing the name of the one I fancy and gazing at it	54.2
8	Phoning his home	50.8
9	Secretly taking a photo of the one I fancy	45.8
10	Empathising with a love song and crying	43.3
11	Frantically hoping I could receive his second button	40.8
12	Waiting for hours outside my boyfriend’s house	40.0
13	Matching fashion	34.2
14	Having a crush on a teacher	33.3
15	Exchanging diaries with my boyfriend	25.0
16	Writing “love” in a steamed-up window	18.3
17	Group dates	12.5
18=	Wearing clothes that match with the one I fancy’s tastes	9.2
18=	Shouting “I love you!” when there’s nobody around	9.2
18=	Singing a song about declaring love in front of a boy	9.2

Q: Regarding love, what foolish things did you do when you were young? (Sample size=544, male)

Rank		Score
1	Spending many hours talking on the phone	100
2	Phoning her home	67.9
3	Fervently praying that she would change seats and sit beside me	50.0
4=	Waiting for hours outside my girlfriend’s house	39.3
4=	Exchanging diaries with my girlfriend	39.3
6	Matching fashion	38.1
7	Thinking of the one I fancy before sleeping so she’d appear in my dreams	33.3
8	Bullying a girl I liked	32.1
9	Carrying a photo of the one I fancy	26.2
10	Obsessing over love spells	17.9
11	Earnestly planning our physical relationships	16.7
12	Buying a photo of the one I fancy	15.5
13=	Writing out a song I like in a love letter	14.3
13=	Empathising with a love song and crying	14.3
15	Group dates	13.1
16=	Shouting “I love you!” when there’s nobody around	11.9
16=	Secretly taking a photo of the one I fancy	11.9
18	Writing “love” in a steamed-up window	9.5
19=	Wearing clothes that match with the one I fancy’s tastes	8.3
19=	Group declarations of love	8.3