世論 What Japan Thinks

Despite being the holidays, I cannot miss my Sunday entertainment for you all, so here goes with a goo Ranking survey looking at what kinds of love people yearned for when they were in high school, for both men and women.

Demographics

Between the 19th and 22nd of November 2010 1,171 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were female, 11.3% in their teens, 19.1% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 23.4% in their forties, 9.6% in their fifties, and 7.6% 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.

Translating the list, I remembered the one I had, love with the trainee teacher – we once had a French teacher-in-training coming to visit our remote islands for a term of hands-on practise, which was nice. Other than that, I wasn’t really into all that nonsense when I was a lad.

Photo illustrating perhaps number three from the female list obtained from scion_cho on flickr.

Ranking result

Q: What kind of love did you yearn for when in high school? (Sample size=588, female)

Rank		Score
1	Love with the older guy in a school club	100
2	Love with a guy who always rode the same train as me	72.3
3	Love with a guy in university	61.4
4	Love with an adult	39.1
5	Love with a bad guy	39.1
6	Love with a teacher	35.9
7	Love with the class hunk	35.3
8	Love with a guy at my part-time job	33.7
9	Love with a childhood friend	28.3
10	Love between me as the sports team dogsbody and him as a team member	28.3

Q: What kind of love did you yearn for when in high school? (Sample size=583, male)

Rank		Score
1	Love with the class idol	100
2	Love with a childhood friend	63.8
3	Love with a girl who always rode the same train as me	61.9
4	Love with a younger girl	60.6
5	Love with a teacher	41.9
6=	Love with the older girl in a school club	40.0
6=	Love between me as a sports team member and her as the team dogsbody	40.0
8=	Love with the trainee teacher	35.0
8=	Love with a girl at my part-time job	35.0
10	Love with an adult	30.6