Hmm. I guess I’ve approached this differently than others. I did not even include the male population at all. I have stated 90.0%-99.5% of the female population rather than the population as a whole.
Man, she does improv AND is slow. So you can’t be on my relay team either! Please don’t say any more and shatter my fantasies.
It was a joke! Some of my fave times in college were spent taking theater classes for non-theater majors. I had no talent, but lots of fun.
Your problem is that you are an exceptional person, and there just aren’t all that many exceptional folk out there, male or female. They’re out there, it’s just they are surrounded by so much mediocrity and just plain unpleasantness of one kind or another. So you have to either lower your expectations, of reconcile yourself to dry spells.
How bout this twist - what percentage of the population is capable of being good friends of yours? Not acquaintences, but true friends. And that doesn’t even require sexual compatibility! Then toss in your various behaviors/habits/etc. which ensure that you will not meet a good percentage of them. I.e., Mr. Right might be waiting for you in the local coed bowling league, but if you don’t bowl…
Also, my mistake in interpreting “dating” as “relationships.” I never cared for dates. Pretty much sucked at them. Didn’t mind 3d or 4th dates and so on, but by then you are in a relationship.
I guess each gender may think the other has an easier time of it in the dating department (for heteros at least). IME most average looking guys figure good looking women (sorry, but your photo confirms that you are in that group) have it made - have their pick of the guys out there. And women enjoy the option of waiting back and being approached (there are never a shortage of guys who will make the approach, whether they are worth knowing or just horny, in which case they still may be useful for a good romp), or seizing the initiative, which excites most guys I know. For a guy, the option is either taking the initiative and risking being shot down, or waiting back and ensuring he goes home with Mr. Hand.
Didn’t mean to confuse you. BTW, gotta let you know a good friend of mine spent several years in your lovely burg over a few month period a while back, and never lets the opportunity pass to slam Vermont. I myself have never had the pleasure. Give me corn, lots of corn…
ok. Let me get this straight. How do you factor “out of your league” (which is completely inane you silly girl, no one is too good for you), and other than factoring what percentage of people are married, and the ratio of women to men in any given place, how do you justify even liberally guessing what percentage of people are a$$-holes. My guess would be different in different areas, and as far as leagues go, you can just throw that one out the door. Try this instead. What is the population of your hometown, find out the number of people there married, subtract that, then figure out what the ration of male to female is, subtract the sex not required to date you, then subtract the age range population. Those are statistics i’m sure you can actually figure out. the number your’e left with is the dateable figure, as for the a$$-holes, that’s a trial by error basis of figuring out. And don’t forget the change in population due to newlyweds, births, deaths, and of course scaring off people with your shows… Just Kidding! don’t get upset. So the leftover percentage of people is your Dateable percentage, and no matter how high or low, the only way that really effects your chances of finding a date are this. STOP TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE PERCENTAGE OF UNDATEABLE PEOPLE AND GO OUT AND FRIGGIN DATE!.
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As usual, I want to challenge a misconception that is looming large over this thread, namely that there is a “large” percentage of people who can be deemed undateable because they are “assholes.”
Are there a lot of AHs in the world? Sure. But not as many as people claim. I think the AH charge gets thrown around fast and loose based on a lot of hasty, meaningless instantaneous judgement calls. He must be an AH if he drives that car… likes that music… wears that outfit… goes to that school… made that remark… thinks that way… on, and on, and on.
Is that REALLY any measure of a person?
For example, a couple of weeks ago there was a thread about how to judge a person, and the concensus was that if the person treated animals and servers well he/she was okay. I say crap! It means nothing except how they treat animals and servers.
Hmm, I just finished an article on the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and the Fermi Paradox, and the parallels are striking. Astronomers have a pretty good idea how many stars there are in our galaxy. Of those stars, some will have planets, some of those planets will be capable of supporting life, on some of those planets life will form, etc. They make estimates on all those probabilities, multiply, and it turns out the galaxy ought to be crawling with aliens.
Where are they? That’s the paradox.
So we’re all in agreement that the young, single guys of Burlington should be beating a path to your door, but they’re not (the Swiddles Paradox?). I suppose they could be in a gym or a warehouse somewhere, fighting to the death over you, but not much we can do about that.
Take a lesson from the folks at SETI. They’re using radio telescopes to systematically scan the galaxy for signals, and analyzing them for signs of intelligence. You need to hack into every surveillance camera in Vermont. ATMs, grocery stores, everything. Get the pictures from the state’s driver’s license database too (correcting for the fact that they’ve just spent an hour in line at the DMV). Analyze the faces for intelligence (check to see if their freckles form prime numbers or something) cross reference with age and marriage licenses, and you’re set.
6,082,877,364 (world pop.)
- 5,807,645,708 (pop. outside of US)
- 134,298,000 (the obvious opposite sex removal)
- 38,256,000 (underage)
- 84,145,000 (overage)
- ~2,000,000 (Gay)
- ~9,000,000 (already married)
7,532,656
This is 0.123834% of the world population. Kind of demoralizing considering I haven’t eliminated anyone based on personality conflicts, physical attraction, or overall dullness.
All figures (except the estimation of lesbians) were obtained here.
Cut it out, stuyguy. You’re being an asshole.
Robot Arm – “Even if you’re one-in-a-million, there’s 3,000 others just like you.”
Oh man! That’s classic! Two thumbs up!
I don’t know about the whole OP. Since I like both men and women my options are more, ahem, flexible than the bulk of the population. But I’d have to say that a big bulk of the folks I meet are just not my type for one reason or another. That doesn’t mean they are assholes, just not for me.
See, Dinsy, you just proved my point.
Hey, wanna see a movie this Saturday night?
Dating’s overrated anyway. Try finding a good dentist. Then the odds are really against you.
Is a good dentist harder to find than a good Vet? Man what is this world coming to?
Well, I consider dating to be casual-getting to know someone to decide if this person’s going to be a write off, a friend, or maybe (Ding! ding!) something more.
I don’t fel like you can really know if a person’s compatible with you until you’ve dated or at least talked with them for awhile, so I would say that only 70% or so of the female population is undatable, mainly because that seems to be the percentage that’s already taken.
Once i’ve dated a woman a couple of times, the percentage of undatable rises very quickly. That’s when basic compatibility issues come into play.
Bravo! LOL! Come to think of it, I used to know someone who works for NSA. I’ll have to make a few phone calls.
For the record, I have no doubts of my ability to pick up men. I have no doubt that if I walk into a bar with the intention of picking up any random Y chromosome holder, I can. Nor do I have a problem making friends. Nor do I have a problem making male friends. I have oodles of friends. I do have a problem finding someone who isn’t either entirely too into themselves, entirely too into drugs/alchohol, entirely lacking of chemistry, or entirely underwhelming. But, judging from this thread, that seems to be a problem everywhere.
All part of being an improv performer and enjoying the culture it brings along with it. You’ll survive kid. Or better yet, knock off your sister and steal her men…
If I want to contemplate dating the public at large, I’ll be at the beach. There, I’d go after meeting 40-50% easy.
In town, 95% aren’t dateable. There are 50% I don’t even feel like standing on the subway platform with, much less saying hi to.
But 5% is good odds. Go into a bar with a pool table, and 2 women will be hot enough and available enough to make a fool of yourself over.
Where you folks been? Just cause someone is married don’t mean they won’t date. Look at the Pres… Shucks, lots of people date numerous people at the same time.
Bump.
I’m bored today,
so I check some old threads,
just for fun.
And look what I found.
And you finally found her.
at least 40%
The equation would be: Total population x % of female population (call it .51) x % within my approximate age-range (call it 15 years +/-, 22-52, which I don’t know) x % who are available (unknown) x % who are hetrosexual or bisexual (.9-something) x % I would find attractive (not a high hurdle–I’m easy to please) x % who would find me attractive (damn few, in my experience) x % I could put up with (unknown, but probably not high) x % who could put up with me (unknown, but probably not high).
The answer I come up with is…a total of seven out of the current world population, minus my ex-wife (been there and done that). That gives me a ratio under 1/1,000,000,000, or a percentage of under .0000001. And this is worldwide–the chances of me intersecting with any of the remaining six are somewhere between none and zero.
And you wonder why I’m mean and grumpy.