Pushing your guy past ?just good friends?

By Ken Y-N ( April 23, 2012 at 01:28) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

Today?s goo Ranking looks at the issue of how to prod your good friend or casual date into declaring their love for you, for both women pushing men and men pushing women.

Demographics

Over the 29th of February and the 1st of March 2012 1,175 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.0% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 29.3% in their thirties, 24.1% in their forties, 10.6% in their fifties, and 9.5% 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?m not sure how good any of these moves are, as for my part I did the number one male action with my wife two or three times, although knowing her better now, she probably used a few of the female tricks below to manouvre me into the situation where I unwittingly had to make a move!

Ranking results

Q: What actions would you take to get your reluctant male friend to declare his love for you? (Sample size=721, female)

Rank	?	Score
1	Work out a situation where we can be alone together after class, doing overtime, etc	100
2	Increase the frequency of physical contact	81.1
3	Just calmly and patiently wait	79.2
4	Make him sweat by being distant	72.6
5	Just give up and declare my love for him	70.3
6	Invite him to a restaurant with a good atmosphere	67.9
7	Invite him round to my house	37.7
8	Try saying ?Will we forever be just this way??	35.8
9	Gently snuggle up and look at him with eyes that want him to say something	34.4
10	Make him sweat by praising another guy	29.7
11	Make him sweat by telling him about other people who have declared their love	29.2
12=	Invite him on a trip for just the two of us	25.0
12=	Watch a romantic drama together	25.0
14	Stare enviously at other couples	21.7
15	Pass a message to him via a third pary that I?m waiting for him	19.3

Q: What actions would you take to get your reluctant female friend to declare her love for you? (Sample size=454, male)

Rank	?	Score
1	Just give up and declare my love for her	100
2	Invite her to a restaurant with a good atmosphere	92.3
3	Work out a situation where we can be alone together after class, doing overtime, etc	66.0
4	Invite her round to my house	59.6
5	Invite her on a trip for just the two of us	59.0
6	Just calmly and patiently wait	54.5
7	Increase the frequency of physical contact	32.1
8	Make her sweat by being distant	31.4
9	Try saying ?Will we forever be just this way??	14.7
10	Pass a message to him via a third pary that I?m waiting for her	14.1
11=	Watch a romantic drama together	12.8
11=	Make her sweat by praising another girl	12.8
13	Ask ?Is there something you want to say to me?? to arouse her interest	11.5
14	Stare enviously at other couples	9.0
15	Gently snuggle up and look at her with eyes that want her to say something	8.3

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