Forgiveness Index For Edison Chen

Forgiveness index which has been conducted by City University in China reported that 3 out of 5 people during interview has said to forgive Edison Chen over his naked and racy sex scandal photos. City University criminology program leader Dennis Wong Sing Wing said 65.2% of the respondents said they would forgive Chen after his official public apology. Only 19% said they would not while 14.3% were still undecided or it did not matter.

"There is no clear difference when you compare the amount of men or women who said they would forgive Chen, both being over 75 percent, while the more educated the respondent, the higher the rate of forgiveness," Wong said.

The survey found people from the media, at 11.6 percent, were the most hated in the community, followed by schoolmates (10.6 percent) and strangers, such as salesmen and insurance agents (9.5 percent). Wong said the dislike for the media was probably because of the way it reported the scandal.

But the poll showed Hong Kong's "hatred index" had dropped from last year's 7.03 to 6.19, which Wong attributed to the economy's uptake.

The "forgiveness index," however, was slightly lower this year at 6.86 compared with last year's 6.92, which Wong said was a sign that people still had to learn to forgive.

He said only tertiary institutes have officially included life education into their curriculums, with primary and secondary schools greatly lacking in such instruction.

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