What Japanese do after they get a new boyfriend or girlfriend

By Ken Y-N ( June 11, 2012 at 01:29) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

goo Ranking?s slightly sideways looks at love this week focuses on what people end up doing after they get a new boyfriend or girlfriend, for both women and men.

Demographics

Over the 19th and 20th of April 2012 1,092 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.5% of the sample were female, 11.3% in their teens, 17.0% in their twenties, 28.4% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 10.2% in their fifties, and 7.7% 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.

I remember one of the dates I went on we did get a computer-generated love compatibility horoscope done, but it was completely unable to cope with foreign names. I cannot remember what we did, or even what the outcome of it was, but I do remember thinking that paying 1,000 yen for it was a rip-off!

Talking of love compatibility horoscopes, here?s one I prepared earlier:

Ranking results

Q: What do you end up doing when you get a new boyfriend? (Sample size=661, female)

Rank	?	Score
1	Read his emails over and over	100
2	Get a love compatibility horoscope done	82.0
3	Keep my mobile phone close to me every minute of the day	78.1
4	Make plans to manufacture opportunities to talk with him	64.6
5	Go and buy new clothes	62.6
6	Recall today?s conversations just before bedtime	58.2
7	When I have time to relax, let my imagination run wild and grin madly	46.8
8	Listen to love songs and end up in a romantic mood	45.4
9	Research his hobbies	41.6
10	Check with people around that he doesn?t already have a girlfriend	37.0
11	Consult on matters of love with friends	34.9
12	Buy the books, music he likes	32.4
13	Try out his surname to imagine my name after marriage	30.4
14	Start up the same hobbies as him	26.3
15	Change my hairstyle, get a haircut	21.9
16	Begin to like a celebrity he looks like	20.8
17	Loiter about around him	19.4
18	Check his Twitter feed	18.3
19	Start sighing frequently	13.5
20	View some internet love advice web sites	8.9

Q: What do you end up doing when you get a new girlfriend? (Sample size=431, male)

Rank	?	Score
1	Read her emails over and over	100
2	Make plans to manufacture opportunities to talk with her	83.6
3	Keep my mobile phone close to me every minute of the day	61.2
4	Research her hobbies	49.5
5	Get a love compatibility horoscope done	47.2
6	When I have time to relax, let my imagination run wild and grin madly	43.0
7	Recall today?s conversations just before bedtime	42.5
8	Go and buy new clothes	35.5
9	Buy the books, music she likes	27.6
10=	Listen to love songs and end up in a romantic mood	26.2
10=	Check with people around that she doesn?t already have a boyfriend	26.2
10=	Start up the same hobbies as her	26.2
13	Begin to like a celebrity she looks like	19.6
14	Start sighing frequently	15.4
15	Check her Twitter feed	14.0
16	Consult on matters of love with friends	11.7
17	Try out her first name with my surname to imagine her name after marriage	11.2
18=	Change my hairstyle, get a haircut	10.7
18=	Be unable to relax when alone, but instead wander around my room	10.7
18=	Loiter about around her	10.7

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