Today’s first dose of sillyness from goo Ranking is a look at the best lines for telling someone a relationship is finished, for both men telling women and women telling men.
Demographics
Between the 21st and 24th of April 2009 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.4% of the sample were female, 9.2% were in their teens, 13.7% in their twenties, 27.5% in their thirties, 27.5% in their forties, 11.7% in their fifties, and 10.4% aged sixty or older.
Here’s a photo from gniv on flickr with a line that surprisingly doesn’t feature in the lists below.
Ranking result
Q: Other than just “we’re breaking up”, how do you annouce a relationship is over? (Sample size=521, male)
Rank Score 1 It’s not that I’ve grown to hate you 100 2= I’m tired of going out with you 90.0 2= I want to be alone 90.0 4 I’ve met someone else 87.5 5 I don’t like you any more 72.5 6 I’m not confident that we can be happy together 55.0 7 I want to go back to just being friends 52.5 8 I can’t see/think of a future for us 47.5 9 It’s no fun when we’re together 37.5 10 I want to concentrate on something other than love (work, etc) 30.0 Q: Other than just “we’re breaking up”, how do you annouce a relationship is over? (Sample size=550, female)
Rank Score 1 I’ve met someone else 100 2 It’s not that I’ve grown to hate you 84.7 3 I don’t like you any more 77.8 4 I’m tired of going out with you 75.0 5 I want to be alone 58.3 6 I want to go back to just being friends 56.9 7 I can’t see/think of a future for us 41.7 8 It’s no fun when we’re together 34.7 9 If we carry on like this I can’t see either of us growing 30.6 10 We went out together, but I couldn’t get to like you 26.4
6 Comments
Fili An · May 25, 2009 at 01:45
Brilliant ^_^
Interesting differences.
Sukai · May 25, 2009 at 12:30
It’s surprising that Japanese females tend to use the “I’ve met someone else” line more than the males. I thought it’ll be the other way round.
Christian · May 30, 2009 at 04:52
Looking at the Japanese page, shouldn’t it be “I want (us) to return to being (just) friends” instead of “I want to get back to my friends”?
Ken Y-N · May 30, 2009 at 22:48
Christian, yes indeed, thanks for the correction!
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