This one is for reader Fernando. An oldie but a good one making the rounds again. Warwick University’s Peter Backus applies the Drake equation to discover why, exactly, he can’t find a girlfriend:
So, what this means is that there are 10,510 people in the UK that satisfy these most basic criteria for being my girlfriend. That is 0.00017% of the UK and 0.0014% of Londoners, which doesn’t seem so bad. On a given night in London, there is greater than a 1 in 1000 chance that I will meet an attractive woman between the ages of 24 and 34 with a university degree. Of course this does not take into account the fraction of these women that will find me attractive (depressingly low), the fraction of these women who will be single (falling with age) and, perhaps most importantly, the fraction of these women who I will get along with. ..
Of course this isn’t airtight science but its fun and there are some great comments. Check out the This American life audio, I can’t get enough of Ira Glass.
Favorite comment: “I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that because he is the type of guy to formulate why he doesn’t have a girlfriend is the reason why he doesn’t have a girlfriend.”
From BoingBoing.
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Dave, that is nothing new!
The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a hoax, it performs as it was a part or the Online Casino Industry.
Biggest scammers are not from Nigeria or Ghana, biggest scammers are precisely the executives of big online dating sites, more worried in attracting, converting and retaining subscribers, than offering a good compatibility matching method.
High Precision is precisely the innovation the Online Dating Industry needs.
The only way to achieve that is:
-using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5.
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557% +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!
Serious daters (men) will want to receive an email like this:
Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com