Mundane question of the week: What % of the population is undateable?

See, teh real crux of the problem for Swiddles is I’m all the way over here in Australia. If I was wherever the heck she is, this thread wouldn’t be happening.

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Montfort:

Might have partially been the excitement from being on my own in a new city, but in my opinion the women in Chicago tend to be more attractive than in DC! More short skirts, and not nearly as many dried-up, dowdy-looking types.

Considering that I’m thirtysomething, single, straight, moderately attractive, a working professional and don’t have any glatring shortcomings (social ineptitude, axe murderer, etc.), I would expect to have women beating down my door. Nope.

Instead of using all women in my statistical analysis, I’m going to consider those only in the 28-38 age group. (I’m 35). Here goes …

  • Seems like 80% of all women in my age group are “taken,” either because they’re married or dating. That leaves 20%.

  • About 50% of those remaining are ineligible, because I find them to be physically unattractive – either because they have that hard, weathered trailer park look, or, to be PC, they “outsize” me. Among all women in my age group, I’d find maybe 30% unattractive, but consider that a higher percentage of “attractive” people are dating or married than “unattractive” people. Another 10% are “out of my league” – the’re an 8, 9 or 10 on the IEEE standard scale of attractiveness, and would probably would consider a 6 like me to be slummin’ it, or they consider 5’10" to be “short.” 8% remain.

  • 33% of the remaining women wouldn’t consider me good dating material because I’m “too poor.” In one online dating site, I found my number of matches to increase by about 50% when I upped my income to “$50K to $75K.” A lot of women wouldn’t dream of dating a man with an income lower than theirs. 5.36% left.

  • 40% of those remaining are single moms. At this point, I don’t want to raise and support another man’s children. 3.216% left. This seems about right – in online dating sites, I find maybe one of 30 profiles to be “compatible.”

Sigh.

… except the inability to post a message to the SDMB that doesn’t have at least one typo.

I had trouble passing Statistics in college and now my resentment toward the subject has deepened. This thread was terribly depressing to me: it helped confirm my suspicion that my dateability potential is excruciatingly low.

I can only hope that the old adage is true:

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.